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This book is a spirited collection of essays, personal testimonies, fiction, and art on what it means to be queer in Asian America now.
List of contents
Preface Introduction Q & A: Notes on a Queer Asian America David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom Part I: Working Out 1. Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America Karin Aguilar-San Juan 2. The Heat Is On Miss Saigon Coalition: Organizing Across Race and Sexuality Yoko Yoshikawa 3. Queer Asian American Immigrants: Opening Borders and Closets Ignatius Bau 4. Coalition Politics: (Re) turning the Century Vera Miao Part II: Im/Proper Images 5. Creating, Curating, and Consuming Queer Asian American Cinema: An Interview with Marie K. Morohoshi Ju Hui Judy Han with Marie K. Morohoshi 6. "A Vaudeville Against Coconut Trees": Colonialism, Contradiction, and Coming Out in Michael Magneye's White Christmas Victor Bascara 7. Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn Richard Fung 8. Lisa's Closet Gaye Chan Part III: Keeping Records 9. Sexuality, Identity, and the Uses of History Nayan Shah 10. history of disease Patti Duncan 11. Queer API Men in Los Angeles: A Roundtable on History and Political Organizing Introduced and edited by Eric C. Wat and Steven Shum 12. Toward a Queer Korean American Diasporic History Jeeyeun Lee Part IV: Closets/Margins 13. Litany Russell Leong 14. Trying fo' Do Anykine to Donna: Fragments of a Prose Work Donna Tsuyuko Tanigawa 15. Transgender/Transsexual Roundtable Transcribed by Diep Khac Tran, Edited by Diep Khac Tran, Bryan, and Rhode 16. Mahu: The Gender Imbalance Jennifer Tseng 17. Curry Queens and Other Spices Sandip Roy Part V: Paternity 18. in his arms Joel Barraquiel Tan 19. The Strange Love of Frank Chin Daniel Y. Kim 20. The Unknowable and Sui Sin Far: The Epistemological Limits of "Oriental" Sexuality Min Song 21. Webs of Betrayal, Webs of Blessings You-Leng Leroy Lim 22. Heterosexuality in the Face of Whiteness: Divided Belief in M. Butterfly David L. Eng Part VI: Out Here and Over There 23. Monster Justin Chin 24. Coming Out into the Global System: Postmodem Patriarchies and Transnational Sexualities in The Wedding Banquet Mark Chiang 25. Incidents of Travel Ju Hui Judy Han 26. Transnational Sexualities: South Asian (Trans)nation(alism)s and Queer Diasporas Jasbir K. Puar Selected Bibliography: Anthologies, Fiction, and Nonfiction Compiled by Alice Y. Hom Resource Guide Compiled by Alice Y. Hom About the Contributors
Summary
What does it mean to be queer and Asian-American at the turn of the century? This title considers how Asian-American racial identity and queer sexuality interconnect in mutually shaping and complicating ways. It gathers an array of voices and experiences that represent the communities of a queer Asian-America.
