2019Journal article
Jillian M. Báez
Women's studies quarterly
Editor's Note Jillian M. Báez In Cristina García's novel Monkey Hunting (2003), the protagonist Chen Pan migrates from rural China to Cuba in 1857 via a slave ship. Pan initially works as an indentured servant on a sugarcane plantation, but later escapes. After opening a small business, he buys and marries an enslaved mulata and begins a family. The novel is an intergenerational story that follows Pan's granddaughter, who lives under Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and his great-great-grandson, who migrates with his father to the United States and later serves in the Vietnam War. Similarly, Mira Nair's 1991 film Mississippi Masala is a cross-generational tale chronicling a Ugandan Indian family's forced migration to England and then to the United States. While the father, Jay, longs for his home in Uganda, his daughter Mina makes peace with their life in the United States and falls in love with an African American man. Both Monkey Hunting and Mississippi Masala offer nuanced stories of Asian diasporas in terms of migration, displacement, cultural hybridity, and interethnic relations. These fictional narratives echo many of the themes explored in this issue. Movement to, from, and across Asia is not new. Asian diasporic communities can be found all over the globe, including Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Australia. As depicted in García's and Nair's cultural texts, Asian migration is often marked by multiple migrations over the course of a few generations. This constant movement can ferment feelings of nostalgia and loss, but migration can also be the catalyst for new forms of kinship; creative, hybrid forms of expression; and the reinvention of urban, suburban, and rural spaces. This issue of WSQ taps into the varied [End Page 9] experiences of Asian diasporas…
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Jillian M. Báez. (2019). Editor's Note. Women's studies quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2019.0008
DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2019.0008
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