via_ostiense also mentioned how the play didn't feel like it was speaking to her own experience in particular.
Hmm, that's true, and I had more of the feeling that it wasn't meant to, or that it was mocking the notion that it ought to, if that makes sense. There are certain Immigrant/2nd-gen/Diversity Narratives (TM) that are accepted in American mainstream culture, whether literature, news, or film, which end up being hailed as typifying the "immigrant experience," and win plaudits and are supposed to resonate with all members of the minority group represented in the work, and I thought the play made fun of that notion, the idea that the experiences of a diverse group of people can be universally represented by a single narrative. So what I felt was not so much that the play didn't speak to my life experiences, but that it ridiculed the notion that it should, or that I should expect to find moments of connection based on it being about a Korean-American.
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Hmm, that's true, and I had more of the feeling that it wasn't meant to, or that it was mocking the notion that it ought to, if that makes sense. There are certain Immigrant/2nd-gen/Diversity Narratives (TM) that are accepted in American mainstream culture, whether literature, news, or film, which end up being hailed as typifying the "immigrant experience," and win plaudits and are supposed to resonate with all members of the minority group represented in the work, and I thought the play made fun of that notion, the idea that the experiences of a diverse group of people can be universally represented by a single narrative. So what I felt was not so much that the play didn't speak to my life experiences, but that it ridiculed the notion that it should, or that I should expect to find moments of connection based on it being about a Korean-American.