{"product_id":"writing-manhood-in-black-and-yellow-9780804751094","title":"Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines cultural representations of African American and Asian American masculinity, focusing primarily on the major works of two influential figures, Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin. It highlights the language of gender and sexuality that writers use to depict the psychological injuries inflicted by racism on men of colora language that relies on metaphors of emasculation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book focuses on how homosexuality comes to function as a powerful symbol for a feminizing racism, and explains why this disturbing symbolism proves to be so rhetorically and emotionally effective. This study also explores the influential concept of literature that these writers promotea view of writing as a cultural and political activity capable of producing the most virile and racially authentic forms of manhood. In comparing African American and Asian American writings, this book offers the first scholarly account of how black and yellow conceptions of masculinity are constructed in relation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through the works of Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin, Kim examines cultural representations of African-American and Asian-American masculinity. He highlights the language of gender and sexuality that writers use to depict the psychological injuries inflicted on men of color and explains the ways that homosexuality comes to function as a powerful symbol for a feminizing racism.\" -- \u003ci\u003eReference \u0026amp; Research Book News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...A wonderful example of a book that seamlessly merges literary close readings, psychoanalytic theory, and cultural studies...Kim's work presents a more complicated picture of Afro-Asian relations that acknowledges the libratory potential and problematic rhetoric the two sometimes share.\" —Julia H. Lee, University of California, Irvine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Table of Contents  @toc4:Preface\tiii  @toc2:Introduction\t1  Chapter One\tInvisible Desires: Homoerotic Racism and its Homophobic Critique in Invisible Man\txxx  Chapter Two\tBlueprints for Negro Manhood: Ellison and the Vernacular\txxx  Chapter Three\tThe Legacy of Fu Manchu: Orientalist Desire and the Figure of the Asian \"Homosexual\txxx  Chapter Four\t\"Shells of the Dead\": The Melancholy of Masculine Desire\txxx  Chapter Five\tThe Fantasy of A Yellow Vernacular: Mimetic Hunger and The \"Chameleon Chinaman\"\txxx  Coda\txxx  @toc4:Notes  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405560914263,"sku":"9780804751094","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804751094.jpg?v=1730492836","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-manhood-in-black-and-yellow-9780804751094","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}