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318 Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an
Investigation)," Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, trans. Ben Brewster (New
York: Monthly Review Press, 1971), 182.

319 Elaine H. Kim, Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their
Social Context (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1982), 4.

320 Robert G. Lee, Orientals, 116.

321 Tina Chen, "Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker by Chang-
Rae Lee," Modern Fictional Studies 48.3 (2002), 638.

322 June Dewer makes a similar point and reads Mitt's death symbolically in her essay
"Speaking and Listening: The Immigrant Spy Who Comes in from the Cold," The
Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving Out a Niche, eds.
Katherine B. Payant and Toby Rose (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999).

323 In a section "The Death of a Child" in his book, the Grinsberg points out the
connection between parental grief and survivor's guilt and refers to several clinical
studies. See the Grinbergs' book Perspectives on Loss and Trauma, 42.

324 David Aberbach, Surviving Trauma: Loss, Literature and Psychoanalysis (New
Haven: Yale UP, 1989), 16.

325 Sigmund Freud, "Mourning and Melancholia," SE 14(1917 [1915]), 247-251.

326 Dewyer, "Speaking and Listening: The Immigrant Spy Who Comes in from the Cold,"
77.

327 "Strangers from a different shore" is the title of Ronald Takaki's canonical book on
the history of Asian-Americans. I borrow the phrase from his book title.

328 Tina Chen, "Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker by Chang-
Rae Lee," 659.

329 Myung Mi Kim, "Interview" by James Kyung-Jin Lee, Words that Matter:
Conversations iith Asian American Writers, ed. King-Kok Cheung (Honolulu: U of
Hawai'i P, 2000), 94.

330 Crystal Parikh, "Ethnic America Undercover: The Intellectual and Minority
Discourse," Contemporary Literature 43.2 (2002), 281.

331 Judith Butler, The Psychic Life ofPower: Theories of Subjection (Stanford: Stanford
UP, 1997), 115.