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Title
Performing Heteroglossia: Contesting "War Bride" Discourses, Exploring Histories of 'Kokoro" with Four Senryu Writers
Subject
Japanese American history
Japanese migrants in the United States
Senryu, Japanese
Description
ABSTRACT
My thesis explores the diasporic memories and poetic practices of four "Japanese war brides" in the state ofWashington, U.S.A. My analysis is based on a two-month ethnographic study where I focused on their poetic practices called senryu. Based on a Bakhtinian analysis of"heteroglossic utterances" I theorize the writers as
heteroglossic subjects who performatively move between "culturally different" discursive spaces, each ofwhich has a set ofpower-relations and a set of discourses that organize it. When the writers tell their experiences in the discursive space ofsenryu, I argue, these
stories disturb their identity determined by the dominant "war bride" discourses. In my thesis, I re-tell the stories the writers shared with me during my interviews
with them. By bringing together their individual voices, I attempt to show how they together generate new accounts about their transnational experiences and their diasporic, multi-voiced sense of home and identities.
My thesis explores the diasporic memories and poetic practices of four "Japanese war brides" in the state ofWashington, U.S.A. My analysis is based on a two-month ethnographic study where I focused on their poetic practices called senryu. Based on a Bakhtinian analysis of"heteroglossic utterances" I theorize the writers as
heteroglossic subjects who performatively move between "culturally different" discursive spaces, each ofwhich has a set ofpower-relations and a set of discourses that organize it. When the writers tell their experiences in the discursive space ofsenryu, I argue, these
stories disturb their identity determined by the dominant "war bride" discourses. In my thesis, I re-tell the stories the writers shared with me during my interviews
with them. By bringing together their individual voices, I attempt to show how they together generate new accounts about their transnational experiences and their diasporic, multi-voiced sense of home and identities.
Creator
Yoshimizu, Ayaka
Publisher
Simon Fraser University
Date
2004
Rights
All rights reserved.
Format
pdf
Language
eng
Type
dissertation