Surface relations : queer forms of Asian American inscrutability / Vivian L. Huang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huang, Vivian L., 1986- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian American art--20th century.

Asian American art.

Asian American art--21st century.

Asian American art--Themes, motives.

Asian American artists.

American literature--Asian American authors--Themes, motives.

American literature.

Group identity in art.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in literature, visual culture, and performance art since 1965, Huang articulates how Asian American artists take up aesthetics of Asian inscrutability-such as invisibility, silence, unreliability, flatness, and withholding-to express Asian American life. Through analyses of diverse works by performance artists (Tehching Hsieh, Baseera Khan, Emma Sulkowicz, Tseng Kwong Chi), writers (Kim Fu, Kai Cheng Thom, Monique Truong), and video, multimedia, and conceptual artists (Laurel Nakadate, Yoko Ono, Mika Tajima), Huang challenges neoliberal narratives of assimilation that erase Asianness. By using sound, touch, and affect, these artists and writers create new frameworks for affirming Asianness as a source of political and social critique and innovative forms of life and creativity."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Inscrutable Surfacing

Invisibility and the Vanishing Point of Asian/American Visuality

Silence and Parasitic Hospitality in the Works of Yoko Ono, Laurel Nakadate, and Emma Sulkowicz

Im/penetrability, Trans Figuration, and Unreliable Surfacing

Flatness, Industriousness, and Laborious Flexibility

Distance, Negativity, and Slutty Sociality in Tseng Kwong Chi's Performance Photographs

Something Is Missing.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Huang, Vivian L., 1986- Surface relations.

ISBN:

9781478023623

1478023627

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.