The paper investigates how far American-born Asians or recent immigrants in the United States find themselves always caught in the gap between two worlds with“double consciousness”(Du Bois,2007:xiii),and demonstrate...The paper investigates how far American-born Asians or recent immigrants in the United States find themselves always caught in the gap between two worlds with“double consciousness”(Du Bois,2007:xiii),and demonstrates the complex interrela⁃tions between the mainstream society’s structured social processes and the Asian diasporic conditions.It finds the identities of Asian diaspora to be perennially problematic.The process of self-reconstruction is portrayed from generational,or inter-racial viewpoints.This paper focuses attention on the alienation,translation,and negotiation of the protagonists who are found engaged in the complexities of existential conflicts arising from their need to balance,adapt and integrate in the adopted land.展开更多
文摘The paper investigates how far American-born Asians or recent immigrants in the United States find themselves always caught in the gap between two worlds with“double consciousness”(Du Bois,2007:xiii),and demonstrates the complex interrela⁃tions between the mainstream society’s structured social processes and the Asian diasporic conditions.It finds the identities of Asian diaspora to be perennially problematic.The process of self-reconstruction is portrayed from generational,or inter-racial viewpoints.This paper focuses attention on the alienation,translation,and negotiation of the protagonists who are found engaged in the complexities of existential conflicts arising from their need to balance,adapt and integrate in the adopted land.
