Learning to speak a new tongue
Subtitle: imagining a way that holds people together--an Asian American conversation
By: Fumitaka Matsuoka
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781608998289
Subjects: Asian Americans; Cultural pluralism; Race identity; Ethnic identity; Ethnic relations; Religion; Group identity; Religious pluralism; Race relations; Intercultural communication
Description: "What holds people together in a fragmented world? The response comes from a religious community that has not been very visible: Asian Americans. The author employs the threefold epistemological scaffold familiar to Asian Americans: (1) translocal value orientation embedded in the experiences of racialization, (2) a heightened sensitivity to pathos arising out of our dissonance with the societal norms and values, and (3) amphibolous spirituality, that is, a co-existence of multiple religious traditions without any resolution of their differences. The angle of vision embedded in this epistemological framework of Asian Americans' lives may well provide a clue to an alternate architectural paradigm in building a new peoplehood and to redefine democratic freedom as the historical paradigm of American peoplehood"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-142).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What holds people together in a wounded world?; title: The original language of American peoplehood and its corruption; title: People on the way : translocal and rupturally liminal experience of race; title: The spirit of dissonance and dissent; title: Amphibolous faith : reality is multiple.