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  • Chapter 14 - Marking the Difference Made by “Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity”: Lisa Lowe’s Impact on Asian American Studies

  • from Part III - Institutionalization and Canon Formation
  • Edited by Asha Nadkarni, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book:
    Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996
    Published online:
    08 June 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021, pp 260-276

  • Summary

    Lisa Lowe’s 1991 essay “Heterogeneity, Hybridity, and Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences,” published in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, argued for the profound generativity of the concept of difference in cultural politics. By instead characterizing Asian American racial formation and its cultures through the terms heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity, Lowe challenged the orientalist binaries that had for so long constricted considerations of Asian American culture. Because difference could generate affiliation and expansion, rather than unity, closure, and finitude, it would become a new starting point for apprehending minority cultures outside of the dominant frameworks of national inclusion and normative citizenship. This essay uses the frameworks of “recovery,” “reckoning,” and “remediation” to structure a discussion of the impact of Lisa Lowe’s work, and particularly the insights offered by her 1991 “Heterogeneity, Hybridity, and Multiplicity” essay, on the field of Asian American studies.