“...I’m not guilty of anything but being born with this face” :
Yellow Peril, Modern Minority, and Anti-Asian violence in We
are Not Free

k 2022

“...I’m not guilty of anything but being born with this face” : Yellow Peril, Modern Minority, and Anti-Asian violence in We are Not Free

KOHLOVÁ, Petra

Základní údaje

Originální název

“...I’m not guilty of anything but being born with this face” : Yellow Peril, Modern Minority, and Anti-Asian violence in We are Not Free

Autoři

KOHLOVÁ, Petra

Vydání

Community in Peril : From Individual Identities to Global Citizenship, The Graduate Studies Conference, Masaryk University, 25-26 November 2022, Brno, Czech Republic, 2022

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

young adult; internment literature; otherness; yellow peril; model minority

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 18. 1. 2023 10:40, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The Japanese internment of the 1940s is a defining moment for the Asian American community in US history and an established topic of Asian American literature. Interment writing frequently critiques mass incarceration through various genres and literary means, ranging from documentary literature to historical novels or aftermath literature, all intended for various audiences. Postredress literature is often characterized by the sense of injustice persevering in the Japanese American community and scholarly circles as well. Such stories are established through various creative outlets (e.g. use of multiple points of view). Interestingly, the children’s literature genre has dominated internment literature for decades.The talk focuses on Traci Chee’s YA novel We Are Not Free(2020, the finalist of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature) which maps the Japanese interment through fourteen different child narrators and various methods of storytelling. The major topics of the talk will discern the thin boundary between the yellow peril and model minority stereotypes, both connected to the notion of otherness. Furthermore, the rise of Anti-Asian violence in the twenty-first century in the US shall be emphasized in the context of the novel.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1478/2021, interní kód MU

Název: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies II

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies II

Citovat

KOHLOVÁ, Petra. “...I’m not guilty of anything but being born with this face” : Yellow Peril, Modern Minority, and Anti-Asian violence in We are Not Free. In Community in Peril : From Individual Identities to Global Citizenship, The Graduate Studies Conference, Masaryk University, 25-26 November 2022, Brno, Czech Republic. 2022.

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KOHLOVÁ, Petra. “...I’m not guilty of anything but being born with this face” : Yellow Peril, Modern Minority, and Anti-Asian violence in We are Not Free. In \textit{Community in Peril : From Individual Identities to Global Citizenship, The Graduate Studies Conference, Masaryk University, 25-26 November 2022, Brno, Czech Republic}. 2022.

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