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    THE PATHOS OF TEMPORALITY IN MID-20TH CENTURY ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION

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    Thesis/Dissertation
    Date
    2018
    Author
    Gardam, Sarah Christine
    Advisor
    Lee, Sue-Im, 1969-
    Committee member
    Singer, Alan, 1948-
    Brivic, Sheldon, 1943-
    Levitt, Laura, 1960-
    Department
    English
    Subject
    Literature, English
    Asian American Studies
    Literature, Modern
    Asian American
    Empathy
    Instrumentality
    Modernity
    Pathos
    Temporality
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/2900
    
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/2882
    Abstract
    Lack of understanding regarding the role that temporality-pathos plays in Asian American literature leads scholars to misread many textual passages as deviations from the implied authors’ political critiques. This dissertation invites scholars to recognize temporality-focused passages in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West, Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart, and John Okada’s No-No Boy, as part of a pathos formula developed by avant-garde Asian American writers to resist systemic alienations experienced by Asian Americans by diagnosing and treating America’s empathy gap. I find that each of pathae examined – the pathos of finitude, the pathos of idealism, and the pathos of confusion – appears in each of the major primary texts discussed, and that these pathae not only invite similitude-based empathy from a wide readership, but also prompt, via multiple methods, the expansion of empathy. First, the authors use these pathae diagnostically: the pathos of finitude makes visible American imperialism’s destruction of prior ways of life; the pathos of idealism exposes the falsity of the futures promised by liberalism; and the pathos of confusion counters the destructive nationalisms that fractured the era. Second, the authors use these temporality pathae to identify the instrumentalist reasoning underlying these capitalist ideologies and to show how they stunt American empathy. Third, the authors deploy formal and thematic complexities that cultivate empathy-generating faculties of mind and cultivate alternative forms of reasoning.
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