Mona on the Phone: The Performative Body and Racial Identity in Mona in the Promised Land

Mona on the Phone: The Performative Body and Racial Identity in Mona in the Promised Land

Lin examines how the discourse of the racialized body is deconstructed through the device of Mona's telephone calls in the novel "Mona in the Promised Land" by Gish Jen. When Mona works the temple hotline, the text explicitly calls into question the identity of her repeat caller and h...

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Veröffentlicht in:Melus 2003-06, Vol.28 (2), p.47-57
1. Verfasser: Lin, Erika T.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Asian Americans
Criticism and interpretation
Gender identity
Irony
Jen, Gish
Literary criticism
Literature
Multiculturalism
Normativity
Novels
Performative utterances
Race
Racial identity
Racism
Telephones
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Zusammenfassung:Lin examines how the discourse of the racialized body is deconstructed through the device of Mona's telephone calls in the novel "Mona in the Promised Land" by Gish Jen. When Mona works the temple hotline, the text explicitly calls into question the identity of her repeat caller and her attempts at imagining a body for the disembodied voice are mapped onto discourses of racial identity.
ISSN:0163-755X
1946-3170
DOI:10.2307/3595282