In "The Feeling of Kinship," David L. Eng investigates the
emergence of "queer liberalism"--the empowerment of certain gays
and lesbians in the United States, economically through an
increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle,
and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy
and intimacy. Eng argues that in our "colorblind" age the emergence
of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom
and progress, one constituted by both the racialization of intimacy
and the forgetting of race. Through a startling reading of
"Lawrence v. Texas," the landmark legal decision overturning
Texas's antisodomy statute, Eng reveals how the ghosts of
miscegenation haunt both "Lawrence "and the advent of queer
liberalism.
Eng develops the concept of "queer diasporas" as a critical
response to queer liberalism. A methodology drawing attention to
new forms of family and kinship, accounts of subjects and
subjectivities, and relations of affect and desire, the concept
differs from the traditional notions of diaspora, theories of the
nation-state, and principles of neoliberal capitalism upon which
queer liberalism thrives. Eng analyzes films, documentaries, and
literature by Asian and Asian American artists including Wong
Kar-wai, Monique Truong, Deann Borshay Liem, and Rea Tajiri, as
well as a psychoanalytic case history of a transnational adoptee
from Korea. In so doing, he demonstrates how queer Asian migrant
labor, transnational adoption from Asia, and the political and
psychic legacies of Japanese internment underwrite narratives of
racial forgetting and queer freedom in the present. A focus on
queer diasporas also highlights the need for a poststructuralist
account of family and kinship, one offering psychic alternatives to
Oedipal paradigms. "The Feeling of Kinship "makes a major
contribution to American studies, Asian American studies, diaspora
studies, psychoanalysis, and queer theory.
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