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Should the end user's application experience, rather than "cool" features in silicon hardware, be the primary focal point of the system development process? That idea was explored earlier this year in the EDA360 vision paper, and it's become a hot topic of discussion. That discussion came to a new level at last week's ARM Technology Conference (ARM Techcon), where panelists tackled some challenging questions related to application-driven system development.
The panel was entitled "Are System Developers Ready for Applications to Drive and Define a New World Order?" It was moderated by Ron Wilson of UBM Electronics (EE Times). The panelists, left to right in the photo below, were:
Here are some of those challenging questions, and some answers:
Question 1: If the whole point of systems development is the user's application experience, are we evolving to the point where there is no reason to spend money on differentiating the underlying hardware, and where we'll produce some small, generic hardware platforms and focus all our efforts on software and firmware?
(Note: This is the same question that arose at the ARM-Cadence "fireside chat," as I described in a blog post last week).
Hardware differentiation will not go away, Mehta said. "Dynamic power can be managed by software -- but leakage, not quite so," he said. "At that level foundry process improvements will be required." Another way hardware provides differentiation is through the use of sensors.
Software development is very important, but underlying differentiation in hardware is still needed, Ryser said. "If you can do that on the fly in a running system that is not fully fixed, I think you have a big advantage."
If we end up with a single hardware platform, the result will be software "with no trace of innovation," Rusling said. "The embedded and mobile space is one of incredible diversity and innovation, and from a software perspective you need to exploit all that diversity."
Mehta said he had a "little bit of a concern that if we are moving towards a software-driven world, there may be a scenario in which in order to be portable, software can only use the very common parts of the hardware. That will defeat the purpose of having advanced hardware." McNamara concurred: "The worst kind of flow is a least common denominator. If we say, 'I won't use this [hardware] feature until every single possible application supports it,' that's the worst case."
Question 2: If the object is to support the user's application experience, what does that mean for integration and verification?
"Today we have the ability to put together systems that model the environment we're going to get - a virtual model of the end device," McNamara said. He noted the importance of modeling the entire system. You may have a component that can do 24 frames/second video, but once put into a system, it's forced to share a small memory capacity and it can't provide a good viewing experience.
"Models are great, but a lot of the time you still need physical interfaces you can validate," Ordoubadian said. There are "situations in which you want some kind of emulation environment, where you can run your code and make sure the way you were thinking is how it is going to work."
Ryser pointed out the difficulty of debugging end applications that are built on top of layers of hardware and software. "When the application developer has a problem, how does he figure out what the real problem is?" The solution, Ryser said, is to "build on top of components that are very well defined."
Question 3: How can we balance everyone's love of diversity and competition versus the fact that every new design is going to cost something like $50 million to launch and 90 percent are going to fail?
Mehta put it bluntly. "If there is no diversity there will be no innovation. The bottom line is that we have to reduce the $50 million to $100 million cost to develop a new system." He added that "at every startup I ever worked at, I had to reinvent the wheel. There are no industry standard methodologies you can pick up and use. If we want diversity, we have to reduce that $50 million cost to $20 million, and I can assure you that you just spent $20 to $30 million redoing what every other startup company is doing next door."
Question 4: When applications rather than cool hardware features drive business, are there fundamental changes in how you do business?
"The cost of software development is now much higher than hardware because the teams are bigger," Ordoubadian said. "What we have learned is that when you're dealing with complex SoCs, you can have a ratio between hardware and software that ranges from 1-to-4 to 1-to-10."
Mehta said it isn't strictly true that applications drive hardware, or that hardware drives applications - "it's a two-way street." If you put a sensor on a piece of silicon, you enable hundreds of new applications, and in this instance hardware is driving the applications. On the other hand, Intel's MMX instruction set extensions were driven by a demand for the processor to handle multimedia, so "in that case the application drove the hardware."
This is exactly the kind of discussion the industry needs to be having. Thanks to ARM Techcon for providing this opportunity.
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IMPERSONATION AND OTHER DISAPPEARING ACTS IN NATIVE SPEAKER BY CHANG-RAE LEE. Tina Chen. Chen 637
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1 Chen 637 f IMPERSONATION AND OTHER DISAPPEARING ACTS IN NATIVE SPEAKER BY CHANG-RAE LEE Tina Chen And yet you may know me. I am an amiable man. I can be most personable, if not charming, and whatever I possess in this life is more or less the result of a talent I have for making you feel good about yourself when you are with me. In this sense I am not a seducer. I am hardly seen. I won't speak untruths to you, I won't pass easy compliments or odious offerings of flattery. I make do with on-hand materials, what I can chip out of you, your natural ore. Then I fuel the fire of your most secret vanity. Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man MFS Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 48, number 3, Fall Copyright for the Purdue Research Foundation by the Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights to reproduction in any form reserved.
2 638 Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker Henry Park is an invisible man. Like the nameless protagonist of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, he suffers from the refusal of others to see him. However, unlike Ellison's character, his invisibility is both a matter of the refusal of others to see him and the logical effect of his occupation. In Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker, Henry Park is a spook, haunting those against whom he is paid to spy. That Lee's protagonist is a spy is no coincidence: Henry's vanishing acts, a professional opportunity to enact the spy's "multiple roles," are a logical extension of his personal history as a Korean American struggling to negotiate the divide that separates how others perceive him and how he sees himself. Native Speaker weaves an intricate web of intrigue in order to examine the multiple forces that form Henry as a spy who gets caught up in the messy tangle of his many deceptions. Lee writes about a spy, yet the novel is not a typical spy novel. Henry's stories about his spying lyrical, cryptic, introspective do not conform to the conventions of the spy story. The disjunction between the teller and his tale marks the ways that Lee deliberately reworks the genre of the spy story, altering it to accommodate the exigencies of a spy whose racially determined invisibility signals not license but a debilitating erasure of self and power. Although Henry's spying is a metaphor for his uneasy position as a Korean American trying to figure out his place in American society, spying in Native Speaker moves beyond metaphor and provides Lee an opportunity to criticize formally the generic conventions that make the telling of Henry's story such a difficult thing. By rewriting the generic conventions of the spy story, Lee designates Henry as a postmodern operative whose troubles with language and performance lead him to question the roles he has been given to play and the ways in which he has been encouraged to speak. Native Speaker explores its preoccupations with the conventions of genre and of narrative, with racial invisibility and disappearing acts, with linguistic fluency and rhetorical style on levels both formal and thematic. Henry's own exploration of what it means to be a spy and a storyteller represents not only the self-examination of a man who is afraid he has lost his identity but also the chronicle of immigrant success and failure, and the price exacted by the immigrant practice of "gently and not so gently exploit[ing one's] own" (50). The tensions that structure Henry's stories, both the ones he tells others and the ones he tells himself, make their telling a difficult enterprise. His lyricism and elo-
3 Chen 639 quence falter into strange silences, broken narratives, cryptic phrases. Such problems with how to fashion narrative symbolize the multiple anxieties that Henry experiences as a Korean American whose American birth does not preclude his grappling with linguistic fluency and a cultural legacy of silence; as a man who woos his speech therapist wife without truly fathoming the mysteries of how to make himself heard and understood; and as a spy whose professional success is predicated upon his ability to impersonate someone else, to speak a story not his own. Henry is a problematic storyteller. There are questions that others his boss, his wife, his colleagues, and his friends have about his reliability. Even more importantly, Henry himself cannot always distinguish his facts from his own narrative impulses: his confusion about which stories to tell and how to tell them results from his multiple betrayals, each one contributing to the unraveling of both his narrative and identity. A good father, a dutiful son, a loving husband, a trustworthy friend, and an accomplished spy: he is, at times, all of these things as well as none of them. Lost behind the masks and impostures he effects as part of his job, he discovers that his consummate ability to cast for others "the perfect picture of a face" (12) carries with it a heavy price: the dissolution of self-coherence. Working as an undercover "ethnic operative" for Glimmer and Co., an intelligence firm specializing in the accumulation and exchange of information, Henry eventually confronts "the magnificent and horrifying level of [his own] virtuosity" (150) in all areas of his life. That confrontation, provoked by the death of his son, his wife's subsequent decision to leave him, and his interactions with councilman John Kwang, forces Henry to deal with the extent to which his identity is the result both of his own performative choices and of his American education that leads him to enact a particular role. Ultimately, Henry discovers that he is both victim and perpetrator of the crimes he commits. Before he can own up to the ways in which his many betrayals lead to a self-betrayal, Henry must wrestle with the histories that shape him: the conditioning that teaches him his "truest place in the culture" (118) is as a spy; the practice of imposture that problematizes the authenticity he craves; and the difficult mastery of linguistic fluency. His engagement with these dilemmas implicates him in a romantic notion of identity as the final mask that will not fall away even as they mark him as a cultural informant whose acts of "serial identity"
4 640 Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker (30) foreground the impossibility of ever fully removing the masks he wears. As Henry discerns the paradoxical truth that the masks he wears prevent him from speaking even as they are the very things that enable him to articulate a semblance of self, readers of Native Speaker discover that Lee's novel itself operates behind the mask of the spy story in order to expose the formal limitations of narration in Henry's story but also to acknowledge the important role conventions play in dictating the stories by which we know ourselves and others. Rewriting the Story, Recasting the Spy Henry is a spy, but his story is not a "spy story" in the conventional sense. Although Eric Ambler claims that the only ingredient one needs to create a spy story is a protagonist who happens to be a spy, critical discussions of the genre detail the importance of a number of conventions in the construction and consumption of the spy story. As is the case with all formula fiction, the spy story relies on a set of well-defined narrative formulas for its shape and meaning. Marty Roth argues that, unlike the conventions of "literature," which "are regarded as scaffolding," conventions in spy and detective fiction are "the crucial relays of meaning and pleasure" (10). These generic conventions extend beyond subject matter to include the style and structure of the narrative, the social positioning of the protagonist, the ways in which the plot unfolds, and the functions of conspiracy, suspense, and resolution. With "its own methods of plot construction, characteristic techniques of presentation, and a code of ethical values peculiar to itself" (Murch 11), spy fiction exists as a form whose meaning and pleasure derive from a relatively strict adherence to the formulas with which it is associated and which its readers both expect and demand. 1 In writing the story of Henry Park, Lee rearticulates the standard concerns of the spy story a fascination with the trope of undetectability; an exploration of the license and voyeuristic thrills that characterize the "fantasy of invisibility"; the double plot of detection; and the presentation of the spy as a storyteller, the story a paradigm for the processes of reading and writing in order to accommodate the inflections of race on the spy's invisibility as well as to expose the failure of the conventions to narrate the story of such a spy. Native Speaker begins its rewriting of
5 Chen 641 genre by examining the spy's authorial agency and revealing the ways in which recasting the spy necessitates rewriting the spy story. Henry's Korean background proves valuable to his boss, Dennis Hoagland, who constantly "bemoaned the fact that Americans generally made the worst spies. Mostly he meant whites. Even with methodical training they were inclined to run off at the mouth, make unnecessary displays of themselves, unconsciously slip in the tiniest flourish that could scare off a nervous contact. [...] They felt this subcutaneous aching to let everyone know they were a spook" (160). Henry's lack of flamboyance, the quality that makes him an excellent mole, is also ironically what makes him an unconventional spy hero. However unrealistic, one of the genre's primary conventions involves the nature of the protagonist as hero and the representation of his mission as dangerous and exciting. Ian Fleming's James Bond, whose espionage practice is characterized almost entirely by the "unnecessary displays" that Hoagland despises, is perhaps the best-known example of such an agent. While it would seem that 007's excessive displays make him a bad spy because they are so at odds with the secret agent's injunction to be unnoticed, what makes James Bond a bad spy in reality is precisely what makes him a popular fictional character. Citing the "nonmimetic" nature of the spy thriller as its most distinguishing characteristic, Bruce Merry argues that the literary representation of espionage activity almost never "corresponds to the known and ascertainable facts about real-life spy networks and intelligence operations" (1). Somerset Maughan adds that "[t]he work of an agent in the Intelligence department is on the whole monotonous. A lot of it is uncommonly useless. The material it offers for stories is scrappy and pointless; the author has himself to make it coherent, dramatic, and probable" (qtd. in Merry 47). Glimmer and Co. specializes in the accumulation of information, and the methods Henry uses to obtain his intelligence are decidedly unromantic. The set pieces of the popular spy story are curiously absent: there are no flagrant disguises, no hairsbreadth escapes, no specialized technologies at use. 2 Henry employs only a computer, which he uses to record indiscriminate literary snapshots of his subjects. He represents himself as detached from his literary production, fulfilling his charge "to be a clean writer, of the most reasonable eye, and present the subject in question like some sentient machine of transcription" (189). In essence,
6 642 Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker he is commissioned to provide nothing but the "scrappy" and "pointless" material of which Maughan speaks, cautioned not to give his reports too much shape or "drama." Henry's efforts to remove himself from his narratives emblematize as well as perpetuate his lack of agency as an Asian-American spy. In order to find voice and expression, Henry must move away from his position as "a clean writer" and acknowledge his own investments in the stories he writes. Jack Kalantzakos, Henry's sole friend at Glimmer and Co., signifies both the conventions that Lee wishes to rewrite as well as the lack of authorial agency Henry experiences as one of Hoagland's ethnic operatives. Jack's story, which Henry concedes is very probably fabricated, reads as if straight out of a spy thriller: Hoagland told me how Jack had been abducted in Cyprus by a red insurgent faction in sixty-four. At the time he was working piecemeal for the CIA. In Cyprus, Hoagland said, Jack's captors decided they were going to break every bone in his body with a small hammer, from the toes up. Then they would put a bullet in his brain. They started the job but stopped when someone crashed a donkey cart into the bottom of the house. The way Hoagland tells it, when they went down to deal with the ruckus, Jack struggled with his guard, shot and killed him, then dragged himself onto the roof and flagged down a policeman from a prone position. (25) This brief biography depicts Jack as a hero who refuses to compromise or sacrifice his mission. It presents spy work as dangerous and operates according to the basic conventions of the genre, including a prolonged torture scene that, despite its grisly threat, allows the hero just enough time to kill his captors and avoid death. Notably, Jack's story is narrated by Henry's boss. By punctuating the narrative with a number of reminders that the story is the product of Hoagland's telling, Henry foregrounds the narrative's fictionality, thus emphasizing the distinctions between spy and storyteller, tale and representation. In addition to providing the reader with a trenchant example of the conventional spy story and the representational process by which it comes to assume an expected form, this biographical vignette foregrounds Jack's lack of agency in the writing of his own story.
7 Chen 643 Henry himself demonstrates an extended knowledge of his reader's generic expectations from the very beginning of his own story. In fact, he begins the narrative with a warning that our expectations, expectations that have been shaped by the nature of the genre and the conventions inherent to it, will not be met. 3 Cautioning us that he and his fellow operatives "weren't the kind of figures you naturally thought of or maybe even hoped existed" (15), Henry goes on to refute, quickly and concisely, all of the popular conventions structuring the spy story: "We pledged allegiance to no government. We weren't ourselves political creatures. We weren't patriots. Even less, heroes. We systematically overassessed risk, made it a bad word. Guns spooked us. Jack kept a pistol in his desk but it didn't work. We knew nothing of weaponry, torture, psychological warfare, extortion, electronics, supercomputers, explosives. Never anything like that" (15). By thus casting himself as an antiheroic protagonist, Henry rewrites one of the basic rules of the spy story. Such a rewriting is rendered necessary by virtue of his compromised social positioning as a "virtual" American. Although the spy is always marked by his status as an outsider, the transformation of what Jerry Palmer identifies as the spy hero's "insideroutsider" status into a condition that more closely resembles the "total outsider" positioning usually associated with the villain of the genre allows Lee to figure Henry as a highly ironic and self-conscious narrator. 4 Since irony involves a "signaling of difference at the very heart of similarity" (Hutcheon, Poetics 26), the reader's familiarity with a genre's forms and conventions leads to "conventions [being] paradoxically functional in the disintegration of [...] genre" (Tani 43). 5 Henry ironizes the conventions of the genre throughout Native Speaker by highlighting the readerly expectations created by the spy story. He parodies the improvisational adventure associated with spy work, noting that while a "camera [...] installed behind the mirror[ed door]" at Glimmer and Co. was monitored by the office secretary via video screen, "no one had ever shown up unexpectedly" (26). He mocks Hoagland's office rituals, critiquing the "thespian formality" that governs their meetings since the meetings to drop off information between agents are "always routine and uneventful" (295). Hoagland's operational strategies, which include a distrust of the mail, a penchant for sending unknown couriers who "display an edge, some suspicion" (295), and a special fondness for using his own name as a code phrase during transactions, are parodic reenact-
8 644 Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker ments of popular ideas regarding the practice of the secret agent. Given the lack of danger characterizing the work performed by Glimmer and Co., the scenarios mimic, in an excessive and theatrical fashion, the conventions of the genre. However, even as Henry pushes his readers to acknowledge the expectations they bring to his story by parodying the established representational practices governing the genre, he also admits to the allure of conventional representation. Expounding upon Hayden White's identification of irony's "transideological nature," Linda Hutcheon asserts that "irony can and does function tactically in the service of a wide range of political positions, legitimating or undercutting a wide variety of interests" (Irony's Edge 10). The ambivalence of positionality made possible by the ironic mode characterizes Henry's wry notice of his own attraction to the very conventions he ironizes. While watching a "new technothriller" replete with "laser-guided weapons, gunboats" and "[m]uscular agents" (227), he thinks of Jack and embellishes upon Hoagland's narrative by "imagin[ing] Jack in Cyprus, both knees broken, blood gluing his teeth, taking aim and shooting his young captor in the eye while lying on the ground" (228). Although Henry professes distaste for the movie, his fantasies about Jack's past exploits triggered by watching the film mark his own susceptibility to the romance of conventional representation. His mocking awareness of the invincibility of the film's hero is, in turn, parodied by the gymnastics of his own imagination, forcing him to concede that "[i]n our fictions, a lucky shot saves your life" (228). Disappearing Acts Henry is at pains to distance himself from the spy hero. The unheroic nature of his daily work and his inability to divorce his personal problems from his professional obligations make him an unlikely candidate for such a role. Nonetheless, his own participation in the construction of "our fictions" reveals a fascination with the exploits and abilities of such a figure. According to John G. Cawelti and Bruce A. Rosenberg, the secret agent protagonist is an immensely popular mythical hero (2). Such popularity stems not only from the spy's role as facilitator of the reader's secret desires and fears, but also from the power afforded by a "fantasy of invisibility":
9 Chen 645 The spy is invisible in a number of senses: he is the secret observer who, himself unseen, watches through a peephole or, in our modern technological age, through a telescope or some electronic device; he is invisible in the sense that his commission as a spy frees him from responsibility and gives him license to do things he could not ordinarily do without serious consequences. [...] These aspects of invisibility voyeurism, self-concealment, and license clearly have a powerful attraction quite apart from the purpose that they are intended to serve. (13) The invisibility of the spy hero delineated by Cawelti and Rosenberg results in a license that may allow him to kill and otherwise transgress the boundaries of social policy that constrain the rest of society. Henry feels destined to engage in spying because he considers his marginal position in American culture as one that easily translates into the spy's marginalized status as "the secret observer." The qualities that make Henry a good spy are the result of his successful racialization; his history as "the obedient, soft-spoken son" within his family and the invisible Asian Other in American society prepare him to move unseen when he wishes. Despite his ability to perform the disappearing acts required of a spy, Henry discovers that the spy's empowering positionality is confounded when the invisibility of the spy coincides with the in/visibilities of race. Cawelti's and Rosenberg's characterization of the "fantasy of invisibility" as liberating figures invisibility as a mode of awareness and control, a position of power from which the spy is able to manipulate and observe others. This emphasis on the powerful aspects of invisibility is further developed by Peggy Phelan in Unmarked: The Politics of Performance, her study of the ideology of the invisible. Phelan argues for a reconsideration of the political emphasis on visibility and the corresponding implication that invisibility is characterized by impotency. 6 Contending that visibility is, as often as not, a trap that "summons surveillance and the law [... and] provokes voyeurism, fetishism, the colonialist/imperial appetite for possession" (6), Phelan emphasizes the liberating possibilities of invisibility by encouraging an exploration of being "unmarked, unspoken, and unseen" (7).
10 646 Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker Although Phelan identifies a number of critically important insights regarding the imbrications between the "given to be seen" and the careful blindnesses that demarcate it, her discussion of the unmarked fails to take into account the fissures that problematize any easy correspondence between that which we cannot see and that which is unmarked. Despite the potential of "the unmarked [to] summon the other eye to see what the mark is blind to what the given to be seen fails to show, what the other cannot offer" (32), being invisible is not necessarily the same as being unmarked. As Lee's novel makes clear, it is indeed possible to be invisible and yet still bear the marks of that erasure. Such a condition is one of in/visibility, where the hypervisibility of race is the precondition for the ways in which one is mis-seen or unseen. For all of Henry's performative forays into the realm of invisibility, his enactment of the "active disappearance" that constitutes Phelan's unmarking leaves an imprint that cannot simply be shrugged off: "My years with [Hoagland] and the rest of them, even good Jack, had somehow colored me funny, marked me" (19). The marks that Henry cannot shrug off are the direct result of the complicated in/visibility he bears. He discovers that his in/visibility is not privileged in the ways that Cawelti, Rosenberg, and Phelan argue. Unlike the performers of which Phelan writes, Henry cannot simply "give up the mark." His marks, contoured on his face and lodged in his overcareful speech, are ones that cannot be voluntarily relinquished. Henry, burdened by his "difficult face" (300), operates within a visual economy wherein being visible is the precondition for his in/visibility. While the power of the spy is predicated upon an aptitude for exploiting his invisibility, the license granted the spy occupying the position of "the secret observer who [is] himself unseen" eludes Henry, whose position is more akin to that of the voyeur at the keyhole who is himself confronted by "le regard" or "an awareness of himself-as-spectacle" (Silverman 164). According to Kaja Silverman, "[t]he voyeur's apprehension of his own specularity [...] leads to the discovery [...] that he 'exists for the Other'" (165). Henry's position as a minority subject compels his awareness of the ways in which his professional voyeurism shadows how he himself is observed and defined. The power of the gaze has been understood as coextensive with the power to limit and define. David Palumbo-Liu argues that the gaze grants "the dominant Other [...] one power inacces-
11 Chen 647 sible to the minority Self it can withhold [...] possibilities [of selfdefinition] and foist upon the minority Self a set of predetermined and necessarily limited sites of representation" (76). Henry's entry into espionage is certainly the result of the limitations he feels imposed upon him, a matter of exploiting one of the "predetermined sites of representation" to which he feels constrained: I had always thought that I could be anyone, perhaps several anyones at once. But Dennis Hoagland and his private firm had conveniently appeared at the right time, offering the perfect vocation for the person I was, someone who could reside in his one place and take half-steps out whenever he wished. For that I felt indebted to him for my life [...] for I thought I had finally found my truest place in the culture. (118) His talents as a spy depend upon the cultural negotiations he learns as a Korean American. Marked as a foreigner although he is American by birth, Henry is familiar with "that secret living" (163) demanded from those who are not seen as native. And significantly, he sees his entry into Glimmer and Co. as one granting that experience "a bizarre sanction" (163). Working as a spy, Henry feels the useful conjoining of his life experience with his professional interests. His outsider status and the alienation that delimit his cultural position as an "American" are precisely the qualities that his spymaster values. Unlike the white Americans characterized by Hoagland, Henry feels no compunction about staying in the background. He grows up experiencing a feeling of doubleness, his self-observation a manifestation of the ways in which he senses his in/visibility. 7 Looking in the mirror and practicing his elocution, Henry remembers the double consciousness that prevents him from believing in his own ability to speak easily and without accent: "When I was young I'd look in the mirror and address it, as if facing the boy there; I would say something dead and normal, like, 'Pleased to make your acquaintance,' and I could barely convince myself that it was I who was talking" (167). In his father's grocery store, the lesson of his in/visibility the impossibility that he could break out of the preconceived ideas about who he was and might be is meted out in non-confrontations with the customers who "didn't seem to see [him]" and "didn't look at [him]" because he "was a comely shadow who didn't threaten them" (49).
12 648 Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker Henry's anger over the in/visibility that encourages a customer to call his family "Oriental Jews" while standing right behind him finds no release in physical or verbal confrontation. Unlike the narrator of Ellison's Invisible Man, whose anger about his invisibility as a Black man is vented, however momentarily or unsuccessfully, in a physical attack on the man he bumps into on the street, Henry is schooled in restraint. Witness to his father's nightly frustration, vented only after he comes home, with men who cheat him and degrade him, Henry is taught to endure and persevere. His mother's patient example; his father's stoicism in the face of provocation; the cipheric blankness of Ahjuhma, the Korean housekeeper who enters the Park household after the death of Henry's mother all encourage him to accept the definitions that others have of him. As an adult, Henry begins to understand how his upbringing has taught him to accept the social determinations of his identity. He comes to believe that by "misapply[ing] what our parents taught us" (180), Asians exist "silent in our guises" and play the roles that others cast for them, no matter how uncomfortable the performance or how inaccurate the perception. A history of self-effacement prepares Henry for his performances as a spy. Hoagland requires the impossible: self-effacement so complete that the spy becomes nothing but a camera eye, recording without the subjectivity of interpretation. In his work for Glimmer and Co., Henry must dissect his subjects and present them for analysis, neat packages of information from which strategic decisions might be made. He specializes in sterile deconstructions a fact that is reflected in his reports, which are "exemplary" (137). Henry seeks to pinpoint the essence of a man's identity by stripping his own prose of interpretive nuances: In the commentary, I won't employ anything that even smacks of theme or moral. I will know nothing of the crafts of argument or narrative or drama. Nothing of beauty or art. And I am to stay on the uncomplicated task of rendering a man's life and ambition and leave to the unseen experts the arcana of human interpretation. The palmistry, the scriptology, the rest of their esoterica. The deep science. (189) Although Henry represents his task as "uncomplicated" and purports to be good at it, he must eventually acknowledge that it is not so easy in
13 Chen 649 fact, it is impossible to transcribe without narrative or interpretation. To help him maintain, as much as possible, his pose as "a clean writer" and prevent the possibility of his own biases and judgments getting in the way of performing the role of "the most reasonable eye," his superiors never divulge to him the reasons behind his missions. Rather than looking for particular details, Henry's undercover assignments involve recording all and leaving "the arcana of human interpretation" to others. Significantly, those to whom such a task falls, the "unseen experts," are those whom even Henry cannot perceive, elusive by virtue of the fact that their invisibility renders them immune to the scrutinizing gaze they train on their subjects as well as those they employ. The distinctions between the spy's invisibility and Henry's in/visibility are confirmed by the multiple betrayals that lead to John Kwang's downfall. Henry's identification with and admiration for Kwang begin to compromise his effectiveness. After Kwang's campaign headquarters are bombed, Henry writes a report that identifies Glimmer and Co. as a probable suspect. In effect, he sends a warning to Hoagland, informing him that "whatever I was giving him should be considered, for his purposes, to be suspect, mistold prose. Perhaps you can't trust Henry Park, I wanted him to think, you can't abide anymore what he now sees and says" (268). In the end, Henry discovers that he has been in Hoagland's sights all along. When he discovers that Kwang himself is responsible for the firebombing, an act of revenge targeted against another spy who has infiltrated the campaign, Henry realizes that Hoagland must have had "many minions and pawns surrounding a case, a swarm invisible even to the spy" (292). While Henry operates blindly, unaware of who else might be involved in Hoagland's operations, Hoagland has occupied a vantage point from which he engineers the ways in which Henry "might effect [his] own undoing, all along contriving to witness and test [his] discipline and loyalty" (292). Acknowledging the psychological damages of in/visibility, Native Speaker is a meditation about fractured identity, the loss of internal coherence, and the longing for a wholeness that is ever deferred, ever impossible to attain. Ultimately, Henry recognizes that his impostures and false acts as a spy have come to mark him personally: he is a man whose very identity is in question. The list that Henry's wife, Lelia, leaves him at the beginning of the novel, "visions of [him] in the whitest raw
14 650 Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker light" (1), is meant as a compass by which he might realize how far away he has drifted from her and from the person she wishes him to be. 8 However, Lelia's careful compilation reveals nothing concrete, mapping only the shadowy outline of a man whose (pre)occupation with serial identity renders him no longer able to distinguish between "real" and "fake" performances even when those performances are ones of his own staging. Without the ability to figure out what makes each act of impersonation a false act founded upon a "truthful ontological bearing" (20), Henry feels cut off from the identities he would claim as his own. Performing Impersonation These distinctions between real and fake are clearly problematic, especially regarding issues of identity and performance. Henry's confusion about the authenticity of performance, whether the act is one that he performs or one he is paid to see through, also manifests itself in a professional crisis. While attempting to extract information from Dr. Emile Luzan, a suspected Marcos sympathizer, Henry's pose as Luzan's psychiatric patient comes dangerously close to violating the unseen boundaries that separate his "real" identity from the one that is, ostensibly, "only an act." Before making contact with Luzan, Henry prepares a "legend," an "extraordinarily extensive [...] autobiography [whose...] minutae of life experience [...] required a truthful ontological bearing, a certain presence of character" (20). Although the legend capitalizes on the intimate relationships between truth and fiction by marshaling "a truthful ontological bearing" to sustain the force of his fictionalizations, Henry's enactments on Luzan's couch acquire a depth of persuasiveness only achievable when the once self-conscious performer succumbs to his own fictions. Significantly, Henry's lack of performative self-consciousness is framed as a loss of self. Becoming "dangerously frank, inconsistently schizophrenic" (20), Henry metamorphosizes from impersonating Luzan's patient to actually becoming Luzan's patient. 9 The psychiatric sessions take on an air of cathartic confession as the initial irony of Luzan's promise to his "patient" "You'll be yourself again" is supplanted by the literalization of such an occurrence. When Henry finds himself "running short of my story, my chosen narrative," he forgoes retreating and revising in
15 Chen 651 favor of "stringing the legend back upon myself [...] looping it through the core [and] freely talking about my life, suddenly breaching the confidences of my father and my mother and my wife. I even spoke to him about a lost dead son" (20). This failure to maintain the distinction between his "false" identity and his "real" self results in Hoagland pulling him from the case. After ordering Jack to retrieve Henry from his compromised mission with Luzan, Hoagland deems it necessary to recalibrate Henry's performative technique before sending him out to report on John Kwang: I need you to work carefully through your legend with Jack before you come back to me with it. [...] You're coming off a tough loss with that shrink and we're all pulling for you. [...] What happened to you has happened to all of us once. That shrink only got to you because he believed in you so fully. You were giving a fantastic performance. You were never better than in those sessions. [...] Christ, I even wanted to help you with your problems. I kept forgetting why you were there. You were brilliant. (38; emphasis added) Hoagland's admonishment contains equal measures of praise and caution about the "brilliance" of Henry's performance, his disappointment at Henry's inability to execute successfully his directive concerning Luzan tempered by an appreciation of the overwhelming believability inspired by Henry's enactment. Hoagland's assessment of the situation pinpoints both the pleasures as well as the dangers of theatrical realism. Not only does Luzan, the uninformed audience for Henry's act, believe fully in what Henry tells him, Henry himself and even Hoagland are drawn into the authenticity of what is being presented. By "forgetting why you were there," spy and spymaster lose the frame of reference that makes the impersonation less "real" than the narrative injunction sustaining any life story. Clearly, the category of what Phelan identifies as "the Real-real" is predicated upon the unseen assumptions of authority that "contain within [them] a meta-text of exclusionary power" (3). Therein lies the danger of forgetting which reality is the authentic one. The desire for authenticity can overwhelm. The temptation of the "Real-real" exists both as form and function. In theatrical performance, realism has been decried as a dangerous practice, primarily because of
16 652 Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker its potential to interpellate an audience into a passive subject position. The potential of realism to imprison a spectator's imagination stems both from the vision of authenticity and authority that it presents to an audience as well as from the methods of representation it employs. Thus, critics have identified the dramatic conventions associated with realism as ones that subtly compel the spectator to occupy a viewing position that implicitly accepts the "truth" of that which is presented. And while realism itself is not necessarily a politically suspect mode of theatrical performance, critics maintain that it can be alarmingly persuasive because of its tendency to naturalize its subject and perspective. According to Josephine Lee, the argument [against theatrical realism] is not so much with its formal or representational qualities as with the more subtle coercion of perception that informs it. Although realism purports to be a faithful representation of ordinary life, it is in fact a more complex ideological practice, a manufacturing rather than a mirroring of some construct of "real life." [...] Recent reassessments of realism have been most critical of the ways in which realism calls [...] for a particular relationship between the spectator and the stage event. (34) The nature of the "relationship between the spectator and the stage event" that has undergone critical reassessment, particularly by feminist theater critics, is predicated upon the assumption of a specific kind of spectator and characterized by a certain level of intimacy and trust. 10 The alchemy of belief created by theatrical performance involves a spectator who enters a theatrical space prepared to witness an illusion but, nonetheless, is seduced into belief. Although feminist critiques of theatrical realism emphasize the vulnerability of the spectator, the realism of Henry's performances are doubly threatening: in addition to commanding the belief of his witnesses, witting and unwitting, he also manages to lose himself in his roles. While the illusions of performance are usually thought to be directed at the spectators who witness them, they can prove seductive to the unvigilant actor as well. Time and again, Henry succumbs to the illusions of his own performances, his confused role-playing with both Emile Luzan and John Kwang a mark of his inability to separate the fictions of his enactments from those acts that he deems reflective of his "real" identity.
17 Chen 653 Henry's difficulty in distinguishing the performance of identity from that which is ostensibly "real" problematizes his initial belief that masks can be taken off, facades stripped away to reveal the concrete foundations that structure who we are. When Henry begins reworking his legend during his psychiatric sessions with Luzan, he considers his personal confessions a sign of his "real" identity breaking through his act. However, the legend itself which is based on the "ontological truth" of who he "really" is is a performative framework that capitalizes on the theatrical practice of "utiliz[ing] everyday objects, situations and people as raw material [...] to construct fictions that by employing these materials have an unusual claim upon actuality." Rather than simply substituting a fiction for reality, Henry's impersonations "are neither totally 'real' nor totally 'illusion' but share aspects of each" (Carlson 53). This comingling of reality and illusion speaks to the complicated issues of authenticity that undergird Henry's performances of self. 11 Although Henry yearns for a "singular sense of the world" (249), he embodies what Jean-Louis Barrault identifies as "the problem of the double": "In man there is a double position: the first one is real, visible, palpable; the second is impalpable, only apprehended, present, yes, but invisible that is the double. [...] The human being that [theater] brings to life on the stage is, in fact, as double as he can be" (121 22). According to Hillel Schwartz in The Culture of the Copy, impostures such as Henry's are "never far from theater" (69). Characterized by a drama of "seamlessness[,....] imposture is the incessant Siamesing of one's life. It is compulsive, it feeds upon itself, it is unrepentant" (69 70). Henry discovers that impostures can take on a life of their own and the impostor can become a victim of his own double agency. Henry's impostures effect an intimacy that undermine the spy's mimicry even as they exploit the spectator's guilelessness. Without the explicit framing of performance provided by theatrical presentation, Henry's enactments collapse the psychological and physical distance between spectator and performer. In the process, Henry becomes enmeshed in the complexities of his own performance; he is a performer who leaves behind the self-consciousness of impersonation to embrace the seamless transformation of imposture. As Bertolt Brecht suggests in his concept of alienation (Verfremdungseffekt), the distance between spectacle and spectator that foregrounds an audience's awareness of the
18 654 Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker ideology behind any performance is also what keeps the actor "safe" from his own enactments. 12 This is doubly true in the case of the spy. By insisting on the artificiality of his acts, Henry assures himself of a discrete and yet-unviolated ontological core, an identity that remains somehow "real." However, each act of imposture heralds a paradox: only by first losing himself in his performances with Luzan and Kwang can Henry "find" himself. Imposture teaches Henry "to look at [his] life not just from a singular mode but through the crucible of a larger narrative" and in so doing, he learns to appreciate the nuances that trouble his original notions of truth and authenticity: "Is this what I have left [...]? That I no longer can simply flash a light inside a character, paint a figure like Kwang with a momentary language, but that I know the greater truths [that] reside in our necessary fictions spanning human event and time?" (192) Detecting the Asian-American Agent Like his character Henry, Lee acknowledges in his work with genre the ways in which "greater truths" are concealed in his "necessary fictions." The necessary fictions with which Lee engages in Native Speaker are manifold. As a careful reading reveals, Lee's novel writes both with and against a variety of disparate textual and representational legacies: the thematization of racial invisibility offered by the African-American literary tradition; the ongoing literary revisions of the generic conventions of spy and detective fiction by minority and women writers; and the development and re-assessment of the figure of the Asian/American as one of stealth and subterfuge. As Catherine Hong noted in her review for Vogue, "With echoes of Ralph Ellison, Chang-rae Lee's extraordinary debut speaks for another kind of invisible man: the Asian immigrant in America" (236). While Ellison's protagonist is clearly not a spy in the vocational sense, he shares with Henry a thematic preoccupation with the problems and possibilities of racial in/visibility. Even so, the figure of the racial minority as spy emerges (or should I say lurks?) in Ellison's text as surely as it does in Native Speaker, although not in the same ways structurally. In a conversation with his grandfather, an ex-slave who was "the meekest of men" and "never made any trouble," the narrator of Invisible Man discovers that underlying the acquiescent exterior his grandfather presents to the world
19 Chen 655 is a keen understanding that "our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country" (17). Clearly, despite or rather, because of the "tranquillized mask of subordination" (Accardo and Portelli 78) that the protagonist's grandfather dons, he is able to perform the dangerous role of "a spy in the enemy's country," an operation dependent upon one's ability "to overcome 'em with yesses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open" (Ellison 17). In many ways, the kind of double performance proposed in Invisible Man is precisely what Henry is asked to perform on behalf of Glimmer and Co. and what he struggles to learn to enact for himself. Significantly, Lee's metafictional double performance with regards to genre echoes the practice of his protagonist and constitutes a textual contribution to the work of a number of ethnic American, women, and gay and lesbian writers who are also seeking to revise the spoken and unspoken conventions dictating the form and meaning of contemporary spy and detective fiction. John G. Cawelti suggests that popular fiction acts as a kind of "social or cultural ritual" ("Concept" 734) that proffers different groups an opportunity to participate in synthesizing divergent values, (re)affirming shared understandings, and exploring new social values or relations; thus, the "creation of representative detective [and spy] heroes has become an important social ritual for minority groups who would claim a meaningful place in the larger social context" (Cawelti, "Canonization" 8). 13 Linda Hutcheon echoes the efficacy of such an engagement with popular form on the part of minority writers who seek to subvert the very forms they utilize when she theorizes that "[p]erhaps the most potent mode of subversion is that which can speak directly to a 'conventional' reader" (Poetics 202). 14 Although the particularities of how individual minority and women writers have chosen to revise the genre vary, it would be relatively safe to state that the incorporation of "new" content within the "old" form of the spy story or detective fiction by such writers oftentimes results not only in the questioning of form but also in the innovation of the conventions by which formula fiction derives its meaning. As Ellison affirms in Shadow and Act, "protest [in art...] does not necessarily take the form of speaking for a political or social program. It might appear in a novel as a technical assault against the styles which have gone before" (137; emphasis added).
20 656 Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts in Native Speaker Although Lee, like many other minority writers, revises a number of the conventions of the spy novel to accommodate his Korean-American protagonist, the figure of the Asian spy is itself a cultural convention. Stereotyped as sneaky and inscrutable, Asians and clandestinity have proven a particularly compelling combination. The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was justified by the suspicion that they were secretly working as "spies, saboteurs, and fifth columnists" for the Japanese government (qtd. in Daniels 200). 15 Although no Japanese Americans were ever convicted of espionage, the condemnation of the entire Japanese-American community on the basis of such fears represents the material effects of a Yellow Peril mentality that had influenced American responses to Asian immigration since the nineteenth century. 16 In casting Henry as a professional spy who succeeds by exploiting his own community, Lee presents a provocative thematization of racial in/visibility. The use of espionage as a formal and thematic trope not only highlights the myriad ways in which Asian-American bodies have been represented as in/visible but provides an opportunity for Lee to redress the popular stereotypes of Asian secret agents created by Anglo-American writers. (In)famous sleuths such as Charlie Chan, created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1925, and Mr. Moto, the Japanese secret agent that John P. Marquand introduced in the Saturday Evening Post in 1935, captured the public imagination with their powers of detection. These two characters are generally considered a response to the figure of Dr. Fu Manchu, whose very name became synonymous with Asian secrecy, cunning, and threat. 17 Marty Roth traces one of the spy thriller's defining characteristics, "a conspiracy of deception or evil" (226), to Sax Rohmer's Yellow Peril romances about the Devil Doctor. The "racist ambivalence" that writers such as Lee are addressing when they rework the figure of the Asian spy is identified by Cawelti and Rosenberg as the primary ingredient of the heroic spy story, where "a fascination with alien cultures coexists with an overt fear and condemnation of these cultures" (44). While a number of contemporary Asian-American artists have participated in the project of revising and redeploying the stereotypes of Asian secrecy and cunning through their use of the figure of the Asian- American spy or detective, Lee's particular contributions in this area can be demonstrated through a brief comparison with David Henry Hwang's award-winning 1989 Broadway play M. Butterfly and Leonard Chang's
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Lafora Information for Breeders
Introduction: key facts for breeders
The health and welfare of our beloved breed is of vital importance to responsible breeders and it is heartwarming to see that many more are now supporting the UK Lafora testing programme. Here are some reasons why:
- from current testing 10% UK mini wires are affected and 36% are carriers
- according to veterinary neurologists with expertise in Lafora, ALL affected dogs will, at some stage go on to exhibit some symptoms
- average age of onset: 7.1 years old, though some tested affected dogs have started to show symptoms age 2.5
- 50% of owners say that the impact on themselves and their dogs has been very severe or severe
- 80% of vets do not recognise the symptoms when first presented, so a 'vet check' is not sufficient
- a tested 'unaffected' status dog is NOT Clear. It may either be a carrier or clear.
- prospective puppy buyers are now becoming more aware of Lafora and are actively seeking breeders who have known status stock
- from analysis of recent Kennel Club Breed Supplement Records (Winter 2012 – Summer 2013), of litters registered:
- Over 50% litters registered are from unsafe combinations: Not Tested to Not Tested, Affected to Carrier or Affected, Carrier to Not Tested or Not Tested to Not Affected (but could be carrier or clear). Many of these dogs may be carriers or clear, but some of them will be affected.
- Looked at another way, of 357 puppies born in this period, less than 10% of them would be safe to mate without testing at least one of the breeding pair.
Puppies Registered Winter 2012 – Summer 2013
|Clear to clear
|Clear to affected
|Clear to carrier
|Clear to not affected*
|Clear to not tested
|Not affected* to not tested
|Not tested to not tested
*i.e. will not develop symptoms themselves but have not been tested to differentiate carrier from clear status
Faced with these statistics, it simply isn't acceptable for any breeder to breed without knowing the status of the dogs. Whether they are big, small, a show breeder, a commercial breeder with a money motive, hobby breeder or the pet owner who wants another dog 'like the one I've got as I've been told she/he is a good specimen', unless careful choices are taken on breeding pairs, there is a risk that puppies born will be bred from later irresponsibly and produce more affected puppies.
BUT breeders with top stud dogs have a special responsibility to lead the way publicly and refuse to put untested or known carrier studs, (however special they are, however many shows they have won) to known affected, carrier or untested bitches….. and that also applies to those breeders who flock to them in the hope of producing a champion dog.
A Breeder's Perspective
Susan Holt, who has been heavily involved in coordinating the WHDC Screening Programme for some time has written an insightful piece on Lafora from a breeder's perspective.
Kennel Club Requirements
The Kennel Club already recommends, and may shortly require that members of their Accredited Breeding Programme should have any mini wire hair dachshunds tested for Lafora 'affected' before breeding (see Kennel Club). Shortly the Kennel Club will also show Lafora DNA test results within their Mate Select Health Test Result Finder service.
Breed Pairings:
In order to breed out this horrendous condition from a breeding population within a reasonable timescale, it is vital that the Lafora status of any breeding pair is known. If two carrier dogs, (who will never show any sign of the condition themselves) are unwittingly bred together, or a carrier bred to an affected dog, then affected puppies, inheriting a copy of the faulty gene from each parent, will be born. Because of this, it might seem that the best way forward is to avoid breeding any dog identified as either an 'affected' or a 'carrier' dog. However, by limiting the gene pool so severely, there is a very strong chance of either increasing the prevalence of equally dangerous and potentially fatal genetic traits, including as yet unknown conditions.
A useful diagram illustrating how this works can be found here: Lafora genetics RAG % chart.
By knowing exactly what the characteristics are of any breeding pair, it is possible, in theory, to remove the faulty gene entirely from a population within three generations whilst allowing strictly controlled breeding of carrier dogs (see genetics page). The reality is slightly different: because there are so many breeders (both hobby and professional) who either are not aware of the condition or are not willing to comply strictly with to such a programme, the chances are that it will take much longer to reduce and hopefully eventually prevent Lafora. It is encouraging that there is progress now being made with reducing the incidence of the Cord1 gene, proven to be linked to PRA (Progressive Retinal Atrophy), which affects miniature long hair, mini smooths and the other dachshund varieties (including the mini wire) to a greater or lesser extent.
Read more about what it is like to own a Lafora affected dog on our Living with Lafora section, particularly the heartbreaking stories in Blogs on Dogs, or the latest in the Autumn 2013 Press Release
To get involved in the UK WHDC Screening Programme, read more about how to get your dogs tested, go to WHDC test results to check out the status of potential studs and bitches.
Watch out for exciting news soon – the launch of our Lafora Pioneer Breeder's scheme, replacing our current Supportive Breeders page.