{"id":9238,"date":"2010-09-28T01:52:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T01:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2010-09-28T22:27:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T22:27:34","slug":"diverse-identities-in-interracial-relationships-a-multiethnic-interpretation-of-%e2%80%9cmississippi-masala%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cthe-wedding-banquet%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9238","title":{"rendered":"Diverse Identities in Interracial Relationships: A Multiethnic Interpretation of \u201cMississippi Masala\u201d and \u201cThe Wedding Banquet\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diverse Identities in Interracial Relationships: A Multiethnic Interpretation of \u201cMississippi Masala\u201d and \u201cThe Wedding Banquet\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Xchanges<\/a>
\nVolume 4, Number 1<\/a> (September 2004)<\/p>\n

Lan Dong<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English
\nUniversity of Illinois, Springfield<\/em><\/p>\n

In their introduction to the collection Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media<\/em>, Ella Shohat<\/a> and Robert Stam<\/a> point out \u201cmuch of the work on race within the United States has tended to emphasize a discussion of particular ethnicities. There has not been much engagement with the interrelations among such communities, nor with how the multicultural debates cross various national borders\u201d (Shohat and Stam 3). In the past decade, nevertheless, discussions of ethnicity and identity among U.S. critics frequently note the prominent multiethnic and interethnic relations among racial groups [1].<\/p>\n

In this paper, I build upon theories of multiethnicity and interethnicity in my examination of heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity within the body we label \u201cAsian diaspora.\u201d In particular, my argument is focused on the realization and construction of the diverse identities of Asian diaspora living in contemporary America in the context of interracial relationships. I choose to analyze Mississippi Masala<\/a><\/span><\/em> (1991)<\/span> directed by Mira Nair<\/a> <\/span>and The Wedding Banquet<\/a><\/em> \u559c\u5bb4(1993) directed by <\/span>Ang Lee<\/a> since interracial romance in both films functions as the primary plot. The struggle for love and individuality is intertwined with the protagonists\u2019 complicated identities by way of negotiation between personal, familial, communal, and social concerns. <\/span>I use this film analysis to suggest the intersection of gender, class, ethnicity, and nationalism in Asian diaspora’s pursuit of their reconstructed, rather than prescribed, identities…<\/p>\n

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Diverse Identities in Interracial Relationships: A Multiethnic Interpretation of \u201cMississippi Masala\u201d and \u201cThe Wedding Banquet\u201d Xchanges Volume 4, Number 1 (September 2004) Lan Dong, Assistant Professor of English University of Illinois, Springfield In their introduction to the collection Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media, Ella Shohat and Robert Stam point out \u201cmuch of the work on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1196,20],"tags":[3964,3962,3965,3961,3960,3963],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-literary-criticism","category-usa","tag-ang-lee","tag-lan-dong","tag-mira-nair","tag-mississippi-masala","tag-the-wedding-banquet","tag-xchanges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}