{"product_id":"racial-castration-9780822326366","title":"Racial Castration","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory and explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. This title examines images - literary, visual, and filmic - that configure past and contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“David Eng’s excellent book shows not only how psychoanalysis can—and must—read race but how race revises psychoanalytic theory fundamentally. Wide-ranging and lucid, this work offers a theoretically rich set of cultural readings, making us know in new ways the proximities of racial difference, desire, anxiety, and visual representation.”—Judith Butler, University of California at Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e“With consummate lucidity and analytical skill, David Eng demonstrates how intimately related are Asian American identity and generic U.S. nationality—and how central to both are the contestations of masculine subjectivity. A powerful contribution to Americanist and transnational studies, \u003ci\u003eRacial Castration\u003c\/i\u003e more generally demonstrates the potential of psychoanalytic theory as an element in rigorous social critique.”—Phillip Brian Harper, New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Racial Castration\u003cbr\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. I’ve Been (Re)Working on the Railroad: Photography and National History in \u003ci\u003eChina Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDonald Duk\u003c\/i\u003e 35\u003cbr\u003e 2. Primal Scenes: Queer Childhood in “The Shoyu Kid” 104\u003cbr\u003e 3. Heterosexuality in the Face of Whiteness: Divided Belief in \u003ci\u003eM. Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e 137\u003cbr\u003e 4. Male Hysteria—Real and Imagined—in \u003ci\u003eEat a Bowl of Tea\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePangs of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 167\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies 204\u003cbr\u003e Notes 229\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 267\u003cbr\u003e Index 283","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406027039063,"sku":"9780822326366","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/racial-castration-9780822326366","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}