Lost in the City

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Lost in the City is written by Stephen Hong Sohn and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0542929678 (ISBN 10) and 9780542929670 (ISBN 13).

Arginalized figures bearing stories of trauma and suffering, these literary personages call attention to sociohistorically configured subject positions such as war refugees, queer prostitutes, the homeless, and liquor store owners, who are in danger of erasure, disembodiment, and death. Following the work of Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre respectively, this dissertation argues that lost subjects employ spatial "tactics" to combat their disorientation through the creation of "counter-sites," locations that allow reinscription into the physical fabric of the city. However, characters often fail to achieve personal fulfillment, suggesting that Asian American identity exists in ever shifting tension with a given geography. My work engages analyses of urbanscapes ranging from New York and Los Angeles to Taipei, Saigon, and Manila. Tales of the Asian American in the cityscape continue to problematize Asian American identity not only in the discourse of the nation-state, but also in con.