Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability - Couverture rigide

Huang, Vivian L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1478016353 ISBN 13 : 9781478016359

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2022

Synopsis

In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in literature, visual culture, and performance art since 1965, Huang articulates how Asian American artists take up the aesthetics of Asian inscrutability--such as invisibility, silence, unreliability, flatness, and withholding--to express Asian American life. Through analyses of diverse works by performance artists (Tehching Hsieh, Baseera Khan, Emma Sulkowicz, Tseng Kwong Chi), writers (Kim Fu, Kai Cheng Thom, Monique Truong), and video, multimedia, and conceptual artists (Laurel Nakadate, Yoko Ono, Mika Tajima), Huang challenges neoliberal narratives of assimilation that erase Asianness. By using sound, touch, and affect, these artists and writers create new frameworks for affirming Asianness as a source of political and social critique and innovative forms of life and creativity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Vivian L. Huang is Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at San Francisco State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478016353
• ISBN 13: 9781478016359
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible