"Racial Castration," the first book to bring together the fields of
Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role
of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual
identity. David L. Eng examines images--literary, visual, and
filmic--that configure past as well as contemporary perceptions of
Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.
Eng juxtaposes theortical discussions of Freud, Lacan, and Fanon
with critical readings of works by Frank Chin, Maxine Hong
Kingston, Lonny Kaneko, David Henry Hwang, Louie Chu, David Wong
Louie, Ang Lee, and R. Zamora Linmark. While situating these
literary and cultural productions in relation to both
psychoanalytic theory and historical events of particular
significance for Asian Americans, Eng presents a sustained analysis
of dreamwork and photography, the mirror stage and the primal
scene, and fetishism and hysteria. In the process, he offers
startlingly new interpretations of Asian American masculinity in
its connections to immigration exclusion, the building of the
transcontinental railroad, the wartime internment of Japanese
Americans, multiculturalism, and the model minority myth. After
demonstrating the many ways in which Asian American males are
haunted and constrained by enduring domestic norms of sexuality and
race, Eng analyzes the relationship between Asian American male
subjectivity and the larger transnational Asian diaspora.
Challenging more conventional understandings of diaspora as
organized by race, he instead reconceptualizes it in terms of
sexuality and queerness.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe |
| Release date: |
March 2001 |
| First published: |
March 2001 |
| Authors: |
David L. Eng
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-2636-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-8223-2636-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780822326366 |
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