This paper highlights counternarratives of identity essentialism (re)producing representational conflations to normalize the existing system of social hierarchies. Analyzing anti-hegemonic discourses of identity in the film series “Asian Americans”, I propound how anti-essentialist critiques work as a rhetorical vehicle for constructing coalitional possibilities. This essay reinstates the importance of deconstructing binary logics in understanding social and cultural relations regulating Asian/American derogatory representations. Unpacking the invisibility of ideological power in administering representational strategies, this essay employs intersectional lenses to visualize the contradiction of Asian/American politics reclaimed by the dynamic integration of capitalism, transnationalism, imperialist militarism, and racially sexual fetishism. Representational complexity thus becomes a modality of analytic unveiling the presence of power relations in racially gendering Asian/Americans.

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电影系列“亚裔美国人”中的代表性政治：身份本质主义的竞争

本文强调了身份本质主义的反叙述（重新）产生代表性的混合以使现有的社会等级制度正常化。通过分析电影系列“亚裔美国人”中关于身份的反霸权话语，我提出了反本质主义批评如何作为构建联盟可能性的修辞工具发挥作用。本文重申了解构二元逻辑在理解规范亚洲/美国贬义表述的社会和文化关系中的重要性。本文揭示了意识形态权力在执行代表性策略中的不可见性，采用交叉镜头来可视化由资本主义、跨国主义、帝国主义军国主义和种族性拜物教的动态整合所恢复的亚洲/美国政治的矛盾。