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Book SynopsisThis book is conceived as a reader for use in American studies, Asian American studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies, performance studies, and queer studies. It also contains new scholarship on Asian/American sexualities that would be useful for faculty and students. In particular, this volume highlights materials that receive little academic attention such as works on Southeast Asian migrants, mixed race cultural production, and Asian/American pornography. As an interdisciplinary anthology, this collection weaves together various forms of ''knowledge''_autobiographical accounts, humanistic research, community-based work, and artistic expression. Responsive to the imbrication of knowledge and power, the authors aspire to present a diverse sample of discourses that construct Asian/American bodies. They maintain that the body serves as the primary interface between the individual and the social, yet, as Elizabeth Grosz noted over a decade ago,
Trade ReviewEmbodying Asian/American Sexualities forges a new intellectual frontier for critical race and queer studies. This extraordinary collection boasts an archive unlike any other. A provocative tour of transgender, religion, and refugees, as well as the secret lives of Margaret Cho, Brandon Lee, Indian rubber dildos, and Asian men as 'undesirable geniuses', this anthology illuminates ever-shifting conceptions of gender and sexuality through which Asian/American bodies are read. -- David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania
Embodying Asian/American Sexualities mobilizes brave theoretical excursions and conceptual travels across and beyond genders, sexualities, and races. Through deftly designed maneuvers between genres (from fiction to history to journalism), and by positing bodily experiences as the frame through which Asian American selfhoods, activisms, and community are enacted, this collection offers much to readers in search of provocative ideas, methods, and theories. -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Table of ContentsChapter 1 1. Embodying Asian/American Sexualities Chapter 2 2. The Rice Room: Scenes from a Bar Chapter 3 3. Pornography and Its Dis/Contents: A Roundtable Discussion with Anjali Arondekar, Richard Fung, and Sylvia Chong Chapter 4 4. The One That She Wants: Margaret Cho, Mediatization, and Autobiographical Performance Chapter 5 5. Novell-Aah!: A Short Play Chapter 6 6. And the Crow Cries Before He Dies: A Brandon Lee Spoken Word Soliloquy Chapter 7 7. Queer Theory and Anti-Racism Education: Politics of Race and Sexuality in the Classroom and Beyond Chapter 8 8. The Anxiety Over Borders Chapter 9 9. An Interview with Pauline Park Chapter 10 10. Public Agenda and Private Struggles: Khmer Girls in Action Chapter 11 11. Family, Citizenship, and Selfhood in Luong Ung's First They Killed My Father Chapter 12 12. Homosexuality and Korean Immigrant Protestant Churches Chapter 13 13. Finding Fellatio: Friendship, History, and Yone Noguchi Chapter 14 14. Ghosts
