Vivian L. Huang

Surface Relations

Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability

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Produktbeschreibung

Vivian L. Huang retheorizes the stereotype of inscrutability as a queer aesthetic strategy within contemporary Asian American cultural life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018995
• ISBN-10: 1478018992
• Artikelnr.: 63369599

Autorenporträt

Vivian L. Huang

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Inscrutable Surfacing  1
1. Invisibility and the Vanishing Point of Asian/American Visuality  25
2. Silence and Parasitic Hospitality in the Works of Yoko Ono, Laurel
Nakadate, and Emma Sulkowicz  47
3. Im/penetrability, Trans Figuration, and Unreliable Surfacing  73
4. Flatness, Industriousness, and Laborious Flexibility  105
5. Distance, Negativity, and Slutty Sociality in Tseng Kwong Chi’s
Performance Photographs  135
Conclusion: Something Is Missing  165
Notes  187
Bibliography  207
Index  221