Racial Castration - Managing Masculinity in Asian America

"With consummate lucidity and analytical skill, David Eng demonstrates how intimately related are Asian American identity and generic U.S. nationality--and how central to both are the contestations of masculine subjectivity. A powerful contribution to Americanist and transnational studies, "Racial Castration" more generally demonstrates the potential of psychoanalytic theory as an element in rigorous social critique."--Phillip Brian Harper, New York University

List of contents

Preface vii

Introduction: Racial Castration
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1. I’ve Been (Re)Working on the Railroad: Photography and National History in China Men and Donald Duk 35

2. Primal Scenes: Queer Childhood in “The Shoyu Kid” 104

3. Heterosexuality in the Face of Whiteness: Divided Belief in M. Butterfly 137

4. Male Hysteria—Real and Imagined—in Eat a Bowl of Tea and Pangs of Love
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Epilogue: Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies 204

Notes 229

Bibliography 267

Index 283

About the author

David L. Eng is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and coeditor of Q & A: Queer in Asian America, winner of a 1998 Lambda Literary Award.

Summary

Bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory and explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. This title examines images - literary, visual, and filmic - that configure past and contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.

Product details

• Authors: David L. Eng, Eng, David L Eng, David L. Eng
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2001
• EAN: 9780822326366
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2636-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories