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Sticky rice : a politics of intraracial desire / Cynthia Wu.
Van Pelt Library PS228.R32 W82 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wu, Cynthia, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Asian American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Asian Americans in literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Desire in literature.
- Asian Americans--History.
- Asian Americans.
- History.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 194 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Cynthia Wu's provocative Sticky Rice examines representations of same-sex desires and intraracial intimacies in some of the most widely read pieces of Asian American literature. Analyzing canonical works such as John Okada's No-No Boy, Monique Truong's The Book of Salt, H. T. Tsiang's And China Has Hands, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging, as well as Philip Kan Gotanda's play, Yankee Dawg You Die, Wu considers how male relationships in these texts blur the boundaries among the homosocial, the homoerotic, and the homosexual in ways that lie beyond our concepts of modern gay identity.The "sticky rice" of Wu's title is a term used in gay Asian American culture to describe Asian American men who desire other Asian American men. The bonds between men addressed in Sticky Rice show how the thoughts and actions founded by real-life intraracially desiring Asian-raced men can inform how we read the refusal of multiple normativities in Asian Americanist discourse. Wu lays bare the trope of male same-sex desires that grapple with how Asian America's internal divides can be resolved in order to resist assimilation.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Veterans and draft resisters
- Learning to love Ho Chi Minh
- Rebellion and compromise
- Desire and resistance
- Intrasettler conflict
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wu, Cynthia, 1973- Sticky rice.
- ISBN:
- 9781439915813
- 1439915814
- 9781439915820
- 1439915822
- OCLC:
- 1025411493
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