Week 1 Blog

In “Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads,” Sau-Ling C. Wong analyzes the way that the Asian American subject is viewed and how the view is shifting. She then narrows her analysis down to three specific changes: 1) the reduction of cultural nationalist concerns caused by changing demographics in the Asian American population and by critiques from various sources; 2) the declining importance of the distinction between “Asian” and “Asian American;” and 3) “the shift from a domestic American to a diasporic perspective.” I found that Wong’s analysis was quite convincing regarding all of the textual support that she provides within her writing. Even though this week we mostly went over course guidelines and introductory business, we briefly discussed what a diaspora was which relates to the reading in the sense that it is one of the specific changes that Wong decided to analyze as an aspect of denationalization.

Question: Why did Sau-Ling C. Wong decide to focus on these three specific changes in regards to denationalization rather than focusing on other relevant factors that contribute to denationalization?

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Sauling C. Wong. “Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads.”

-Brittany Carlson