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The only sources you need would be the Immigrant Acts(In the file) and the reading “We Should Never Meet”,”Dogeaters” and film “Saving Face”
In Chapter 1 of Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that distance from the national
culture constitutes Asian American culture as an alternative formation that
produces cultural expressions materially and aesthetically at odds with the
resolution of the citizen in the nation. Rather than expressing a failed integration
of Asians into the American cultural sphere, this distance preserves Asian American
culture as an alternative site where the palimpsest of lost memories is reinvented,
histories are fractured and retraced, and the unlike varieties of silence merge into
articulacy (6). First, explain why, according to Lowe, Asian American culture is at a
distance from American national culture. Second, provide a close reading and
analysis of the extent to which We Should Never Meet, Dogeaters, and Saving Face
might be an alternative site where the palimpsest of lost memories is reinvented,
histories are fractured and retraced, and the unlike varieties of silence merge into
articulacy.