Racial castration managing masculinity in Asian America
Eng David L2001
Book
Total copies: 1
Subject: The first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory. It 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.
Author:
Imprint:
US 2001 Duke University Press
Collation:
290p
Series title:
ISBN:
0822326361
Dewey class:
GE.2.02ENG
Local class:
GE.2.02/ENG
Language:
English
BRN:
1840957