The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America : : Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies / / Rachel C. Lee.

Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural StudiesThe Exquisite Corpse ofAsian Americaaddresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or socialconstruction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,authors, and perfo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Sexual Cultures ; 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 24 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Parts/parturition
  • 1. How a critical biopolitical studies lens alters the questions we ask vis-à-vis race
  • 2. The Asiatic, acrobatic, and aleatory biologies of cheng-chieh yu’s dance theater
  • 3. Pussy ballistics and peristaltic feminism
  • 4. Everybody’s novel protist: chimeracological entanglements in amitav ghosh’s fiction
  • 5. A sideways approach to mental disabilities: incarceration, kinesthetics, affect, and ethics
  • 6. Allotropic conclusions: propositions on race and the exquisite corpse
  • Tail piece
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author