288 King-Kok Cheung, Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston,
Joy Kogawa (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993), 20.
289 For more details about the connection between the novel and the L. A. riot, and the
distinctive Korean ways of processing historical trauma for forging a group identity, see
Min Hyoung Song, "A Diasporic Future? Native Speaker and Historical Trauma," LIT
12.1 (2001), 70-98.

290 Sumi K. Cho, "Korean Americans vs. African Americans: Conflict and Construction,"
Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising, ed. Robert Gooding-Williams (New
York: Routledge, 1993), 203-204.
291 Ibid., 203-204.

292 Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan
(New York: Vintage, 1977), 170-177.

293 Ibid., 171.

294 Ibid., 171,177.

295 Quoted in Helen Zia, Asian American Dreams, 44.

296 Fanon, Black .\km, White Masks, 213.

297 Freud, "Inhibition, Symptoms and Anxiety," SE 20, 166.

298 Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, "Ethnicizing Gender: An Exploration of Sexuality as Sign in
Chinese Immigrant Literature," Reading the Literatures ofAsian America, eds. Shirley
Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1992), 126, 116.
299 David Eng, Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in America (Durham and
London: Duke UP, 2001), 17.

300 Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts ofPsycho-Analysis, ed. Jacques-
Alan Miller, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Norton, 1981), 34.

301 Rachel Lee, The Americas ofAsian American Literature: Gendered Fictions ofNation
and Transnation (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999), 5.

302 Rosemary Marangoly George, The Politics ofHome: Postcolonial Relocations and
Ti eintieith-century Fiction (New York: Cambridge UP, 1996), 27.