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    "pk": 42581,
    "title": "Becoming-Animal in Asian Americas: Ruthanne Lum McCunn’s \nGod of Luck\n and a Watanabean Triptych (Three Poems by José Watanabe)",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Considering the implicit North American and Anglophone core of Asian American literature traditionally conceived, this essay discusses two examples of literatures of the Asian Americas. A narrative of a Chinese coolie’s heroic escape from a Peruvian guano mine, Ruthanne Lum McCunn’s novel \nGod of Luck\n (2008) introduces a lesser-known point of view to the field: the nineteenth-century Chinese coolie in Peru. Rather than embrace the emblematic hero who accedes to voice, this essay attempts to read outside of an anticipated rubric of individual politico-economic repletion. In the poetry of Peruvian writer José Watanabe (1946–2007), motifs of animal encounter abound—yet dogs, fish, and other kinds of life are never deployed as a discrete metaphor through which we can see and know ourselves. As readers we are shifted to the edge of the world, in a “becoming-animal” that explores not \nthe\n Asian American, but its restless morphing, illegibly human or otherwise.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Asian American Literature"
        },
        {
            "word": "Ruthanne Lum McCunn"
        },
        {
            "word": "Chinese Coolie"
        },
        {
            "word": "José Watanabe"
        },
        {
            "word": "Becoming-Animal"
        },
        {
            "word": "Asian American Studies"
        }
    ],
    "section": "SPECIAL FORUM: Redefining the American in Asian American Studies: Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Representation",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/84x5v5qj",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Michelle",
            "middle_name": "Har",
            "last_name": "Kim",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2012-06-20T05:57:05-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2012-06-20T05:57:05-07:00",
    "date_published": "2012-06-21T00:00:00-07:00",
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}