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To disorient is to cause one to lose one's bearing; to confuse; to be thrown
into disarray.
To disorient is to provide new information that doesn't fit with what's familiar,
what's traditional, what's been accepted.
To disorient is to explode stereotypes in order to present new, unexpected images.
To disorient means all of the above and echoes our stance -- our "dis"
stance or distance from what has been labeled as the "Orient" or "Oriental"
by racist ideology in order to demean, disempower, and emasculate those of Asian
Pacific Islander descent.
Our history has been one of exclusion: a conscious effort by mainstream institutions
to deny the full fair participation of Asian Pacific Americans. Through the institutions
of government, corporations, academia, media as well as the arts, we have all had
to stage our own endless battles against the dominant society. Thus, in a call for
fair representation in the literature and arts, we felt it was only appropriate to
choose our name based on the deoconstructivist ideology. It is our mission, our quest
in the following pages to redefine any accepted terminology.
Join us in our search.
Join us in our stance.
[ From dIS*orient Journalzine, Volume 1, Number 1, 1993.
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