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TOWARD A MORE WORLDLY WORLD SERIES: READING GAME THREE OF THE 1998 AMERICAN
LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP AND DAVID WONG LOUIE'S "WARMING TRENDS". ...
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... His face is turned toward the past. ... is heaven, Prior chooses to return to “more life”,
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Toward a Worldly World Series
At this point, I wish to turn to an exploration of "Warming Trends" in relation to the changing significance of baseball to show how changes in the perception of America and Chinese Americans can change the way Chinese American texts are received. Like the allegorical significance of the battle between the Yankees and the Indians, Louie's use of baseball as a signifier of Americanness is highly dependent on our perceptions of baseball. Likewise, it is dependent on our perceptions of Asian Americans. For baseball to work as a marker of Americanness, it cannot be seen as Asian. Once baseball is perceived as belonging equally to Asia as it does to America, Louie's story cannot be read in the same way. I am not arguing here that Louie's story is somehow deficient or "time-bound." I regard Pangs of Love, and "Warming Trends" in particular, as deftly-written, engaging literature. What I mean to suggest is that as the meaning of the terms "Asian American" or "Chinese American" changes for Americans, the reading and production of Chinese American literature will change. Maxine Hong Kingston seemed to have these kinds of changes in mind when in 1982 she wrote, "I'm certain that some day when a great body of Chinese American writing becomes published and known, then readers will no longer have to put such a burden on each book that comes out. Readers can see the variety of ways for Chinese Americans to be" (63). Likewise, as a greater number of Asian Americans are seen in a wider spectrum of American life, and when Asian American heroes emerge that both Asian American children and young people of all races can look up to and idolize, then it is inevitable that perceptions of Asian American literature will change.
But surely, we might counter, baseball, that great American pastime, will never be perceived as anything other than quintessentially American. My experience with the ESPN telecast introduced earlier suggests...
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