Reshaping the Identification of Subjectivity: Manifestation of Transversal Politics and Negotiation with the Structures of Violence in Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homeland

Abstract

The disquisitive purport of this paper tends to elucidate how an Asian-American female protagonist vanquishes perturbation arising from uncertain identity and inferior status by spiritually and physically motivating the empowerment of agency through migration. Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homeland, written in the first person to delineate the female writer Shirley Lim’s reminiscence, unequivocally elucidates the tensility of female empowerment due to migration— the process not only reshaping one’s identification of subjectivity but unfolding one’s multiple territories with regard to gender, race and class. Lim’s migrating experiences accompanied by inward percipience expatiates on how an individual with femininity copes with struggling caused by dislocation of female self domestically, racially and nationally. Correspondingly, the protagonist’s subjectivity reconstruction will be explained in the light of Gayatri Spivak’s theory of negotiating the structures of violence and Yuval-Davis’ declaration of transversal politics.