عنوان

Ornamentalism /

0190604611

0190604638

9780190604615

9780190604639

Ornamentalism /

[Book]

Anne Anlin Cheng.

New York, NY :

Oxford University Press,

[2019]

xvi, 204 pages :

illustrations (some color) ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.

Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color past the usual platitudes about objectification and past the critique of Orientalism in order to formulate a fresher and sharper understanding of the representation, circulation, and ontology of Asiatic femininity. This book alters the foundational terms of racialized femininity by allowing us to conceptualize race and gender without being solely beholden to flesh or skin. Tracing a direct link between the making of Asiatic femininity and a technological history of synthetic personhood in the West from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Ornamentalism demonstrates how the construction of modern personhood in the multiple realms of law, culture, and art has been surprisingly indebted to this very marginal figure and places Asian femininity at the center of an entire epistemology of race.

Asians.

Femininity.

Asians.

Femininity.

Cheng, Anne Anlin

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