| Description |
1 online resource (v, 325 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Sexual cultures |
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Sexual cultures.
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| Contents |
Corpse Blood Kidney -- Introduction: Parts/Parturition 1 -- Lymphocytes -- 1 How a Critical Biopolitical Studies Lens Alters the Questions We Ask vis-à-vis Race -- Teeth Feet Gamete -- 2 The Asiatic, Acrobatic, and Aleatory Biologies of Cheng-Chieh Yus Dance Theater -- Vagina Gi Tract -- 3 Pussy Ballistics and Peristaltic Feminism -- Parasite Chromosome -- 4 Everybody's Novel Protist: Chimeracological Entanglements in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction -- Head -- 5 A Sideways Approach to Mental Disabilities: Incarceration, Kinesthetics, Affect, and Ethics -- Breasts Skin -- 6 Allotropic Conclusions: Propositions on Race and the Exquisite Corpse -- Tissue Culture: Tail Piece |
| Summary |
Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engaging novels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. and internationally--such as Kazuo Ishiguro's science fiction novel Never Let Me Go or Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats and exhibits like that of Body Worlds in which many of the bodies on display originated from Chinese prisons--Rachel C. Lee teases out the preoccupation with human fragments and posthuman ecologies in the context of Asian American cultural production and theory. She unpacks how the designation of "Asian American" itself is a mental construct that is paradoxically linked to the biological body. Through chapters that each use a body part as springboard for reading Asian American texts, Lee inaugurates a new avenue of research on biosociality and biopolitics within Asian American criticism, focused on the literary and cultural understandings of pastoral governmentality, the divergent scales of embodiment, and the queer (cross)species being of racial subjects. She establishes an intellectual alliance and methodological synergy between Asian American studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), biocultures, medical humanities, and femiqueer approaches to family formation, carework, affect, and ethics. In pursuing an Asian Americanist critique concerned with speculative and real changes to human biologies, she both produces innovation within the field and demonstrates the urgency of that critique to other disciplines. -- Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Asian American Studies Book Award--Cultural Studies, 2016 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Asian Americans -- Social conditions
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Prejudices -- United States
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Body image -- United States
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Human body -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Asian Americans -- Social conditions
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Body image
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Human body
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Prejudices
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1479813745 |
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9781479813742 |
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9781479821525 |
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1479821527 |
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