摘要：Homi Bhabha’s concept of simulation is broadly used in the post-colonial literary and cultural criticism. Bhabha’s simulation transcends his post-colonial predecessor Said’s dichotomic way of thinking in Orientalism and makes the disadvantaged power’s mild resistance to the hegemonic power become possible. This paper means to give a Homi Bhabhaian reading of Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart: A Personal History. It explores the strategic interaction between the American colonizers and the Filipino colonized in which Bhabha’s simulation serves both as a strategy of control for the colonizers and a strategy of rebellion for the colonized. This strategy embodies an operational process of power and helps Bulosan to realize his initial purpose of writing: “to give literate voice to the voiceless one hundred thousand Filipinos in the US, Hawaii and Alaska”.
关键词：post-colonial criticism; Carlos Bulosan; America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
