Title Racial castration : managing masculinity in Asian America / David L. Eng

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2001 ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) : illustrations Series Perverse modernities Perverse modernities. Contents I've been (re)working on the railroad : photography and national history in China men and Donald Duk -- Primal scenes : queer childhood in "The Shoyu Kid" -- Heterosexuality in the face of whiteness : divided belief in M. Butterfly -- Male hysteria--real and imagined--in Eat a bowl of tea and Pangs of love -- Out here and over there : queerness and diaspora in Asian American studies Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-281) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Asian Americans -- Race identity Masculinity -- United States Sex role -- United States Race -- Psychological aspects American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism Asian Americans -- Intellectual life Asian Americans in literature. Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies American literature -- Asian American authors Asian Americans in literature Asian Americans -- Intellectual life Asian Americans -- Race identity Masculinity Race -- Psychological aspects Sex role Männlichkeit man Wort Asiaten Ethnische Beziehungen Geschlechterverhältnis Homosexualität Mann Aziaten. Sekseverschillen. Mannelijkheid. Psychoanalyse. Masculinité (psychologie) -- États-Unis. Race -- Aspect psychologique -- États-Unis. Littérature américaine -- Auteurs d'origine asiatique -- Histoire et critique. Masculinité (psychologie) -- Dans la littérature. Américains d'origine asiatique -- Dans la littérature. Américain d'origine asiatique (peuple) -- masculinité -- Etats-Unis -- 20e s. Américain d'origine asiatique (peuple) -- homme (masculin) -- sexualité -- Etats-Unis -- 20e s. Américain d'origine asiatique (peuple) -- identité sexuelle -- masculinité -- Etats-Unis -- 20e s. United States USA Asiaten. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822381020 0822381028 1283062062 9781283062060 9786613062062 6613062065

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