7. Autobiography as Guided
Chinatown Tour?
Sau-ling C. Wong : “Removed from
Chinese culture in China by their
ancestors’ emigration, American-born
autobiographers may still capitalize
on white curiosity by conducting the
literary equivalent of a guided
Chinatown tour: by providing
explanations on the manners and
mores of the Chinese-American
community from the vantage point of
a ‘native’” (262).
14. “Between Memory and History:
Les Lieux de Mémoire”
Our interest in lieux de mémoire where
memory crystallizes and secrets itself has
occurred at a particular historical moment,
a turning point where consciousness of a
break with the past is bound up with the
sense that memory has been torn—but
torn in such a way as to pose the problem
of embodiment of memory in certain sites
where a sense of historical continuity
persists. There are lieux de mémoire, sites
of memory, because there are no longer
milieux de mémoire, real environments of
memory.
—Pierre Nora
15. 《骨》:雙重意識下的華埠
From the low seats of the Camaro, I
looked out at the streets and saw the
spidery writing on the store signs, the
dressed-up street lamps with their pagoda
tops, the oddly matched colors: red with
green, green with aqua blue, yellow with
pink.
Looking out, I thought, So this is what
Chinatown looks like from inside those dark
Greyhound buses; this slow view, these
strange color combinations, these narrow
streets, this is what tourists come to see. I
feel a small lightening up inside, because I
knew, no matter what people saw, no
matter how close they looked, our inside
story is something entirely different. (145)
17. 王穎(Wayne Wang)
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)
The Princess of Nebraska (2007)
Last Holiday (2006)
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
The Center of the World (2001)
Anywhere But Here (1999)
Chinese Box (1997)
Smoke (1995)
Blue in the Face (1995)
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (1989)
Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
Dim Sum Take Out (1988)
Slam Dance (1987)
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985)
Chan Is Missing (1982)
A Man, a Woman, and a Killer (1975)
18. Chan Is Missing (1982)
1980年代初期的舊金山的華埠
粗糙的黑白影片(資金問題)但極高的實驗性質
國會圖書館在1995將本片選為20世紀值得典藏的美
國名片之一(the National Film Registry)
偽偵探片(尋人及尋錢):戲諷陳查理(Charlie
Chan)式的偵探片 藉此把華埠走遍遍
Jo and Steve around Chinatown另類的漫遊者:Jo
的旁白做為指引,有目的的追尋(尋人) 徒步,開車
卻不知道自己找的人究竟是誰
Who is Chan Hung?—Taiwanese? Chinese?
American?/為何失蹤?交通事故?揮旗事故?謀殺
案件?捲款潛逃?
音樂的使用:雜化的認同 許冠傑的廣東歌(Sam
Hui’s Hong Kong Pop),英語歌(Pat Suzuki’s
“Grant Ave.”)