David L. Eng is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and co-editor of Q & A: Queer in Asian America.
Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images—literary, visual, and filmic—that configure past as well as contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.
Eng juxtaposes theortical discussions of Freud, Lacan, and Fanon with critical readings of works by Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Lonny Kaneko, David Henry Hwang, Louie Chu, David Wong Louie, Ang Lee, and R. Zamora Linmark. While situating these literary and cultural productions in relation to both psychoanalytic theory and historical events of particular significance for Asian Americans, Eng presents a sustained analysis of dreamwork and photography, the mirror stage and the primal scene, and fetishism and hysteria. In the process, he offers startlingly new interpretations of Asian American masculinity in its connections to immigration exclusion, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, multiculturalism, and the model minority myth. After demonstrating the many ways in which Asian American males are haunted and constrained by enduring domestic norms of sexuality and race, Eng analyzes the relationship between Asian American male subjectivity and the larger transnational Asian diaspora. Challenging more conventional understandings of diaspora as organized by race, he instead reconceptualizes it in terms of sexuality and queerness.
Racial Castration will make a landmark contribution to the fields of Asian American studies, psychoanalytic theory, ethnic studies, feminism, queer theory, gay and lesbian studies, postcoloniality, and critical race theory.
發表於2024-12-23
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圖書標籤: 性彆研究 queer Course:Queer-Theory 精神分析 種族研究 文學理論 sex gender
好書,首先將精神分析曆史化,以討論精神分析理論興起時的人類學背景(歐洲中心、種族主義)為基礎,引入瞭racial difference的因素試圖修訂一部分精神分析理論,指齣whiteness, heterosexuality, masculinity三者間的秘密結盟,以及由此而來的對於non-white族群在sexuality上的符號性壓迫。對於幾個Asian American Masculinity的文本考察也很細緻,分析Shoyu Kid和M. Butterfly兩個文本尤其精彩。
評分2018 Thinking Sex
評分2018 Thinking Sex
評分種族理論、Diaspora研究與精神分析:Eng想證明種族差異可以以“指派性彆”為運作方式:Asian American男性被理解為女性化的,兩種身體編碼閤在一起、一起運作。問題:Asian American和Asian的關係究竟是什麼?為什麼舉瞭很多例子(比如《蝴蝶君》)都是Asian呢?也許Eng想要說明的正是Asian American和Asian在(white)American的眼裏是一樣的,但是似乎沒讀到他在哪裏明確論證或設定瞭這一點。
評分2018 Thinking Sex
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