{"product_id":"the-feeling-of-kinship-9780822347323","title":"The Feeling of Kinship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides a theoretical analysis of how Asian migration and diaspora support the consolidation of gay and lesbian family and intimacy in our colorblind age, and develops a poststructuralist account of kinship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Feeling of Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely examination of the persistence of racial and national differentiation within the privileged investments of ‘queer liberalism’ in its particular focus on the rights to affective union in domesticity, privacy, and family. Here, as elsewhere, David L. Eng demonstrates his gifts of critical precision and elegant presentation.”—\u003cb\u003eLisa Lowe\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003e“Spanning psychoanalysis, law, and aesthetics, and reading richly and with passion, David L. Eng's \u003ci\u003eThe Feeling of Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e looks at transnational adoption as an exemplary scene of contemporary intimacy in the United States. This is a fearless book that knows and feels what it means to have to defend oneself from the ‘liberal’ place in which one lives; what it means racially, sexually, and legally to have to be defensive in a nation that identifies itself with freedom.”—\u003cb\u003eLauren Berlant\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Law of Kinship: \u003ci\u003eLawrence v. Texas\u003c\/i\u003e and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism 23\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Structure of Kinship: The Art of Waiting in \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Salt \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHappy Together\u003c\/i\u003e 58\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Language of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Two Mothers in \u003ci\u003eFirst Person Plural\u003c\/i\u003e 93\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Prospect of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Racial Reparation (with Shinhee Han, Ph.D.) 138\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Feeling of Kinship: Affect and Language in \u003ci\u003eHistory and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e Notes 199\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 225\u003cbr\u003e Index 239","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406060364119,"sku":"9780822347323","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822347323.jpg?v=1730494394","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-feeling-of-kinship-9780822347323","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}