Rereading Ha Jin's Novels in a Transpacific Context: Human Rights and Human Wrongs

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MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/mfs.2023.0005

Y. Shu

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Abstract:This essay rereads Ha Jin's two novels, Waiting and A Free Life, in a transpacific context. I designate this transpacific context to include both the movement of US economic and military expansionism in the Asia Pacific and the possibility of deploying an alternative epistemology and ontology from that geopolitical region as both a response and negotiation. Within this context, I argue that Jin's novels do not simply challenge human rights abuse in China as presumed by critics but rather raise broader historical and cultural questions about different perceptions and understandings of these rights in what Gayatri Spivak theorizes as "responsibility-based" ("Righting Wrongs" 549) and "rights-based" (536) societies.

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跨太平洋语境下的哈金小说重读:人权与人类的错误

摘要:本文在跨太平洋语境下重读哈金的两部小说《等待》和《自由生活》。我指定这个跨太平洋背景包括美国在亚太地区的经济和军事扩张主义运动，以及从该地缘政治区域部署另一种认识论和本体论作为回应和谈判的可能性。在此背景下，我认为金的小说并不是简单地挑战评论家所认为的中国侵犯人权的行为，而是提出了更广泛的历史和文化问题，即在加亚特里·斯皮瓦克(Gayatri Spivak)理论中“以责任为基础”(“纠正错误”549)和“以权利为基础”(536)的社会中，对这些权利的不同看法和理解。

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期刊介绍： Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.