Racial Castration
Managing Masculinity in Asian America
1st Edition
Published on 20. March 2001
300 pages
978-0-8223-8102-0 (ISBN)
Description
A psychoanalytic study that argues for the centrality of sexuality in the construction of Asian-American identity, and of racial identity in general.
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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.
Content
Preface vii
Introduction: Racial Castration
1
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
167
Epilogue: Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies 204
Notes 229
Bibliography 267
Index 283
Introduction: Racial Castration
1
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
167
Epilogue: Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies 204
Notes 229
Bibliography 267
Index 283
