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題 名 | Cultural Transmission and the Voice of the Other: Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban |
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作 者 | Chang, Shuli; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 37:2 民95.冬 |
頁 次 | 頁33-69 |
分類號 | 874.57 |
關鍵詞 | Cristina Garcia; Dreaming in Cuban; Cathy Caruth; Trauma theory; Traumatic awakening; Transcultural literacy; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | This paper argues that, it recent years, the emergence of the transnational space marked by cultural hybridity and racial creolization has initiated a crisis of cultural transmission and transcultural communicability. Given that this crisis is the major theme that Cristina Garcia dramatizes in Dreaming in Cuban, this paper seeks to use her debut novel to explore the problematics of transcultural intelligibility or transnational communicability. Drawing upon the trauma theory developed by Cathy Caruth, this paper maintains that in Dreaming in Cuban, Garcia writes a narrative that gestures towards the ethics of "traumatic awakening," which demands one's understanding of the other as an enigmatic site of unconscious desires calling for the kind of response that goes beyond any linguistic rules or principles of reciprocity. By reading Dreaming in Cuban as a novel that deliberately foregrounds the problematics of the voice of the other, I attempt to intervene in diaspora studies by shifting critical attention away from the problematic of identity, cultural or national, to that of ethics. |
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