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- Title
Reimagining "Tense and Tender Ties" in García's Monkey Hunting.
- Authors
Cho, Yu-Fang
- Abstract
In her article "Reimagining Tense and Tender Ties in Garcia's Monkey Hunting" Yu-Fang Cho analyses Cristina García's re-narration of transnational histories of the multi-racial, multigenerational Chinese Cuban family in Monkey Hunting (2003) Drawing on recent scholarship on comparative racialization including Ann Laura Stoler's formulation of "tense and tender ties" as a method, Cho examines how García's family saga unsettles the temporal and spatial logics of Euro-American modernity through the deployment of cyclical narrative structure that spatially maps emerging or even unintelligible connections between disparate life stories. Reading Monkey Hunting as a piece of imaginative critical historiography, Cho argues that it is through creative reconceptualization of the structure of history and social relations that García's narrative puts forward towards a radical vision of imaginary and epistemological emancipation.
- Subjects
MONKEY Hunting (Book); RACIALIZATION; STOLER, Ann Laura; HISTORIOGRAPHY; YU-Fang Cho; MODERNITY in literature; LIBERTY
- Publication
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Web Journal, 2012, Vol 14, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1481-4374
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.7771/1481-4374.2145