[公告] 6/8 臺大外文系學術演講
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作者: sophia0603 (sophia) 看板: NTU06DFLL
標題: [公告] 6/8 臺大外文系學術演講
時間: Tue Jun 5 20:57:11 2007
國立臺灣大學外國語文學系學術演講
The Art of Waiting: Queer Diasporas andThe Book of Salt
Speaker: Prof. David L. Eng (Professor of English at the University of
Pennsylvania)
主持人：劉亮雅教授（國立臺灣大學外文系教授兼系主任）
時間：2007年6月8日週五下午3:00-5:00
地點：臺大文學院一樓第20教室
Abstract:
This presentation, drawn from my forthcoming book The Feeling of Kinship,
explores Monique Truong's 2003 novel The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin) in
relation to issues of historiography and historicism. When Gertrude Stein
and Alice B. Toklas were expatriates living in Paris, the American couple
employed a series of Vietnamese cooks. Truong's novel is told from the
cook's point of view. In this talk, I ask why it is that Stein and Toklas
can appear in history as the iconic lesbian couple of modernism and modernity
while Binh, the "gay" migrant laborer, cannot appear. In other words, how is
it that Stein and Toklas are placed in history while Binh is displaced from
it? As an "Asian American," "refugee," "postcolonial," and "queer" text, The
Book of Salt positions itself within and against the historiography of
modernism by illuminating what this historiography obscures: the more
extensive forms of social violence and forgetting that configure the
political as well as epistemological limits of modernity.
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