Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xii, 445 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Other Title:
Q and A
Queer in Asian America
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [1998]
Summary:
What does it mean to be queer and Asian American at the turn of the century? The writers, activists, essayists, and artists who contribute to this volume consider how Asian American racial identity and queer sexuality interconnect in mutually shaping and complicating ways. Their collective aim (in the words of the editors) is "to articulate a new conception of Asian American racial identity, its heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity -- concepts that have after all underpinned the Asian American moniker from its very inception".
Q & A approaches matters of identity from a variety of points of view and academic disciplines in order to explore the multiple crossings of race and ethnicity with sexuality and gender. Drawing together the work of visual artists, fiction writers, community organizers, scholars, and participants in roundtable discussions, the collection gathers an array of voices and experiences that represent the emerging communities of a queer Asian America. Collectively, these contributors contend that Asian American studies needs to be more attentive to issues of sexuality and that queer studies needs to be more attentive to other aspects of difference, especially race and ethnicity. Vigorously rejecting the notion that a symmetrical relationship between race and homosexuality would weaken lesbian/gay and queer movements, the editors refuse to "believe that a desirably queer world is one in which we remain perpetual aliens -- queer houseguests -- in a queer nation".
Contents:
Q & A : notes on a queer Asian America / David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom
Going home : enacting justice in queer Asian America / Karin Aguilar-San Juan
The heat is on Miss Saigon coalition : organizing across race and sexuality / Yoko Yoshikawa
Queer Asian American immigrants : opening borders and closets / Ignatius Bau
Coalition politics : (Re)turning the century / Vera Miao
Creating, curating, and consuming queer Asian American cinema : an interview with Marie K. Morohoshi / Ju Hui Judy Han with Marie K. Morohoshi
"A vaudeville against coconut trees" : colonialism, contradiction, and coming out in Michael Magnaye's White Christmas / Victor Bascara
Looking for my penis : the eroticized Asian in gay video porn / Richard Fung
Lisa's closet / Gaye Chan
Sexuality, identity and the uses of history / Nayan Shah
History of disease / Patti Duncan
Queer API men in Los Angeles : a roundtable on history and political organizing / introduced and edited by Eric C. Wat and Steven Shum
Toward a queer Korean American diasporic history / Jeeyeun Lee
Litany / Russell Leong
Trying fo' do anykine to Donna : fragments of a prose work / Donna Tsuyuko Tanigawa
Transgender/transsexual roundtable / transcribed by Diep Khac Tran ; edited by Diep Khac Tran, Bryan, and Rhode
Mahu : the gender imbalance / Jennifer Tseng
Curry queens and other spices / Sandip Roy
In his arms / Joēl Barraquiel Tan
The strange love of Frank Chin / Daniel Y. Kim
The unknowable and Sui Sin Far : the epistemological limits of "oriental" sexuality / Min Song
Webs of betrayal, webs of blessings / You-Leng Leroy Lim
Heterosexuality in the face of whiteness : divided belief in M. Butterfly / David L. Eng
Monster / Justin Chin
Coming out into the global system : postmodern patriarchies and transnational sexualities in The Wedding Banquet / Mark Chiang
Incidents of travel / Ju Hui Judy Han
Transnational sexualities : South Asian (trans)nation(alism)s and queer diasporas / Jasbir K. Puar.
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