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Between Solid America and Fragile Chinatown in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
2021
The article traces mixed affiliations of the narrator of Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (1976), permanently split between the world of Chinatown and broader American society outside Chinatown, both places crucial for the narrator in the on-going process of subjectivity construction. While both of these worlds constantly interpellate her, each of them entails a fair measure of hindrance and empowerment. The article undermines the criticism leveled at Kingston’s The Woman Warrior by a section of the Chinese American community represented primarily by Frank Chin. Chin accused Kingston of pandering to white tastes and white readers’ expectations of Chinese American authors. That, acco…
Questa terra è la mia Terra. Migranti a Manhattan, tra Little Italy e Chinatown
2015
Il contributo affronta il tema della migrazione a New York, storicizzando il fenomeno a partire dal XIX Secolo. In particolare viene analizzata la relazione tra Little Italy e Chinatown, non in termini unicamente morfologici, ma osservando le dinamiche economiche relative ai due gruppi etnici e la differente integrazione nella vita socio economica, a livello del sistema urbano.