Takeo Rivera

Model Minority Masochism (eBook, ePUB)

Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the model minority. While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim to disprove the model minority as myth, author Takeo Rivera instead rethinks the model minority as cultural politics. Rather than disproving the model minority, Rivera instead argues that Asian Americans have formulated their racial and gendered subjectivities in relation to what Rivera terms model minority masochism. Examining hegemonic masculine Asian American cultural performance across multiple media, from literature and theater to videogames and activist archives, Rivera details two complementary forms of contemporary racial masochism: a self-subjugating masochism which embraces the model minority, and its opposite, a self-flagellating masochism that punishes oneself for having been associated with the model minority at all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197557518
• Artikelnr.: 63634959

Autorenporträt

Takeo Rivera is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University. He is also a playwright whose work has been staged bicoastally in the US.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Vincent Chin's Wedding: Techno-Orientalist Becoming and
Asian American Liberalism
* Chapter 2: Bludgeons and Becomings: Vincent Chin, Suspenseful Reveal,
and the Limits of the Legal
* Chapter 3: An Asian is Being Whipped: The Afro-Asian Super-Ego in the
Theater of Philip Kan Gotanda
* Chapter 4: Never Stop Making Them Pay: Greg Pak's Hulk, Moral
Masochism, and Asian American Ressentiment
* Chapter 5: Asians Never Stare Into Your Eyes: Affective Flatness and
the Techno-Orientalization of the Self in Tao Lin's Taipei and Tan
Lin's Insomnia and the Aunt
* Chapter 6: White Skin, Yellow Flesh: Transhumanist
Erotohistoriography in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
* Coda: Sankyoufocoming
* Bibliography
* Index