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The exquisite corpse of Asian America :

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1479813745

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1479821527

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9781479813742

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9781479821525

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1479809780

Erroneous ISBN

1479817716

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9781479809783

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9781479817719

Title Proper

The exquisite corpse of Asian America :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

biopolitics, biosociality, and posthuman ecologies /

First Statement of Responsibility

Rachel C. Lee.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

New York University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2014]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource.

Series Title

Sexual cultures

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural StudiesThe Exquisite Corpse ofAsian Americaaddresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or socialconstruction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engagingnovels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. andinternationally--such as Kazuo Ishiguro's science fiction novel Never Let MeGo or Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats and exhibits like that of BodyWorlds in which many of the bodies on display originated from Chinese prisons--RachelC. Lee teases out the preoccupation with human fragments and posthumanecologies in the context of Asian American cultural production and theory. Sheunpacks how the designation of "Asian American" itself is a mental constructthat is paradoxically linked to the biological body.Through chapters that each use a body part as springboard forreading Asian American texts, Lee inaugurates a new avenue of research onbiosociality and biopolitics within Asian American criticism, focused on theliterary and cultural understandings of pastoral governmentality, the divergentscales of embodiment, and the queer (cross)species being of racial subjects.She establishes an intellectual alliance and methodological synergy betweenAsian American studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), biocultures,medical humanities, and femiqueer approaches to family formation, carework,affect, and ethics. In pursuing an Asian Americanist critique concerned withspeculative and real changes to human biologies, she both produces innovationwithin the field and demonstrates the urgency of that critique to otherdisciplines.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt8r02th

Title

Exquisite corpse of Asian America.

International Standard Book Number

1479817716

Asian Americans-- Social conditions.

Body image-- United States.

Human body-- United States.

Prejudices-- United States.

Asian Americans-- Social conditions.

Body image.

Ethnic & Race Studies.

Gender & Ethnic Studies.

Human body.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Semiotics & Theory.

Prejudices.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination & Race Relations.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.

Social Sciences.

United States.

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Edition

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Book number

Lee, Rachel C.,1966-

Date of Transaction

20200823031437.0

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[Book]

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