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Capacious in its scope and its conclusions alike,
Model Minority Masochism is a critical yet passionate rumination on Asian American masculinity and cultural politics at large.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Vincent Chin's Wedding: Techno-Orientalist Becoming and Asian American Liberalism
- Chapter 2: Bludgeons and Becomings: Vincent Chin, Suspenseful Reveal, and the Limits of the Legal
- Chapter 3: An Asian is Being Whipped: The Afro-Asian Super-Ego in the Theater of Philip Kan Gotanda
- Chapter 4: Never Stop Making Them Pay: Greg Pak's Hulk, Moral Masochism, and Asian American Ressentiment
- Chapter 5: Asians Never Stare Into Your Eyes: Affective Flatness and the Techno-Orientalization of the Self in Tao Lin's Taipei and Tan Lin's Insomnia and the Aunt
- Chapter 6: White Skin, Yellow Flesh: Transhumanist Erotohistoriography in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Coda: Sankyoufocoming
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Takeo Rivera is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University. He is also a playwright whose work has been staged bicoastally in the US.
Summary
Capacious in its scope and its conclusions alike, Model Minority Masochism is a critical yet passionate rumination on Asian American masculinity and cultural politics at large.
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By tethering model minorityness to masochism, Rivera's book builds on a strain of Asian Americanist critique that treats the model minority not as a myth, but a mode of subject formation and structure of feeling. In a moment of renewed attention to the model minority - and many calls to cast it off as a racist fiction - Model Minority Masochism advances a vital intervention, attending to its nuances as well as its limitations.
