Abstract
In her article "Reimagining 'Tense and Tender Ties' in Garcia's Monkey Hunting" Yu-Fang Cho analyses Cristina García's re-narration of transnational histories of the multi-racial, multi-generational Chinese Cuban family in Monkey Hunting (2003) as a critical project that recasts developmental immigrant narratives primarily set in the United States as part of the emerging cultural archive of global migrations. Drawing on recent scholarship on comparative racialization, especially Ann Laura Stoler's formulation of "tense and tender ties" as a method, Cho examines how García's family saga unsettles the temporal and spatial logics of Euro-American modernity through the deployment of cyclical narrative structure that spatially maps emerging or even unintelligible connections between disparate life stories. Reading Monkey Hunting as a piece of imaginative critical historiography, Cho argues that it is through creative reconceptualization of the structure of history — and the social relations that it regulates — that García's narrative puts forward the most radical possible futures under impossible conditions.
Recommended Citation
Cho, Yu-Fang.
"Reimagining "Tense and Tender Ties" in García's Monkey Hunting."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
14.5
(2012):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2145>
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