国立台湾大学外国语文学系学术演讲 The Art of Waiting: Queer Diasporas andThe Book of Salt Speaker: Prof. David L. Eng (Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania) 主持人：刘亮雅教授（国立台湾大学外文系教授兼系主任） 时间：2007年6月8日周五下午3:00-5:00 地点：台大文学院一楼第20教室 Abstract: This presentation, drawn from my forthcoming book The Feeling of Kinship, explores Monique Truong's 2003 novel The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin) in relation to issues of historiography and historicism. When Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were expatriates living in Paris, the American couple employed a series of Vietnamese cooks. Truong's novel is told from the cook's point of view. In this talk, I ask why it is that Stein and Toklas can appear in history as the iconic lesbian couple of modernism and modernity while Binh, the "gay" migrant laborer, cannot appear. In other words, how is it that Stein and Toklas are placed in history while Binh is displaced from it? As an "Asian American," "refugee," "postcolonial," and "queer" text, The Book of Salt positions itself within and against the historiography of modernism by illuminating what this historiography obscures: the more extensive forms of social violence and forgetting that configure the political as well as epistemological limits of modernity. --

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