{"product_id":"the-exquisite-corpse-of-asian-america-biopolitics-biosociality-and-posthuman-ecologies-9781479809783","title":"The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddresses 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLee convincingly shows that Asian Americanist critique in science and technology studies and analytic that takes seriously the biological in critical race and ethnic studies is not far-fetched. * Catalyst *\u003cbr\u003e[T]he study is provocative and evocative, raising such issues and questions as why Asian American artists (in fiction, theater, poetry, and comedy) are so preoccupied with fragments of 'self.' * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eLees propositional and performative writing style will prod readers in (Asian) American studies, performative studies, and critical race theory to reexamine their scholarly assumptions... * Theatre Journal *\u003cbr\u003eAmbitious, original, and immensely generative,The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America challenges us to move outside the paradigms of the racialized body weve relied on in Asian American studies.Lee pushes our thinking in productive new ways to consider more broadly how critical race studies might incorporate new concepts and technologies related to the biological body. -- Josephine Lee,author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage\u003cbr\u003eRachel Lees stunning new book explores contemporary Asian American performance, comedy, written word, and a body exhibit that concern racialized, gendered, militarized body parts. Drawing upon Science and Technology Studies and Asian American Studies, with the aid of transnational femiqueer, critical race, and disability studies, Lee eviscerates what we thought we knew about biopolitics and biosociality. -- Charis Thompson,author of Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents      Corpse      Blood Introduction: Parts\/Parturition 1      Kidney      Lymphocytes 1. How a Critical Biopolitical Studies Lens Alters the Questions We Ask vis-a-vis Race 39      Teeth 2. The Asiatic, Acrobatic, and Aleatory Biologies      Feet of Cheng-Chieh Yu's Dance Theater 66      Gamete      Vagina 3. Pussy Ballistics and Peristaltic Feminism 97      GI Tract      Parasite 4. Everybody's Novel Protist: Chimeracological      Chromosome Entanglements in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction 126      Head 5. A Sideways Approach to Mental Disabilities: Incarceration, Kinesthetics, Affect, and Ethics 161      Breasts 6. Allotropic Conclusions: Propositions on      Skin Race and the Exquisite Corpse 210      Tissue culture Tail Piece 245      Notes 259      Bibliography 295      Index 313      About the Author 325      An insert of color images follows page 138.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409051427159,"sku":"9781479809783","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479809783.jpg?v=1730505253","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-exquisite-corpse-of-asian-america-biopolitics-biosociality-and-posthuman-ecologies-9781479809783","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}