David L Eng

The Feeling of Kinship

Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Spanning psychoanalysis, law, and aesthetics, and reading richly and with passion, David L. Eng's "The Feeling of Kinship" looks at transnational adoption as an exemplary scene of contemporary intimacy in the United States. This is a fearless book that knows and feels what it means to have to defend oneself from the 'liberal' place in which one lives; what it means racially, sexually, and legally to have to be defensive in a nation that identifies itself with freedom."--Lauren Berlant, author of "The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347323
• ISBN-10: 0822347326
• Artikelnr.: 28031741

Autorenporträt

David L. Eng

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy 1
1. The Law of Kinship: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer
Liberalism 23
2. The Structure of Kinship: The Art of Waiting in The Book of Salt and
Happy Together 58
3. The Language of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Two Mothers in
First Person Plural 93
4. The Prospect of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Racial Reparation
(with Shinhee Han, Ph.D.) 138
5. The Feeling of Kinship: Affect and Language in History and Memory 166
Notes 199
Bibliography 225
Index 239