عنوان

Inhuman citizenship :

شابک

0816674434 (hardback)

شابک

0816674442 (pb)

شابک

9780816674435 (hardback)

شابک

9780816674442 (pb)

شماره

b415896

عنوان اصلي

Inhuman citizenship :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

traumatic enjoyment and Asian American literature /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Juliana Chang

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Minneapolis :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Minnesota Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c2012

نام خاص و کميت اثر

241 p. ;

ابعاد

23 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Introduction: Inhuman Citizenship -- 1. Melancholic Citizenship: The Living Dead and Fae Myenne Ng's Bone -- 2. Shameful Citizenship: Animal Jouissance and Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son -- 3. Romantic Citizenship: Immigrant-Nation Romance, the Antifetish, and Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker -- 4. Perverse Citizenship: The Death Drive and Suki Kim's The Interpreter -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

بدون عنوان

8

متن يادداشت

"In Inhuman Citizenship, Juliana Chang claims that literary representations of Asian American domesticity may be understood as symptoms of America's relationship to its national fantasies and to the "jouissance"--a Lacanian term signifying a violent yet euphoric shattering of the self--that both overhangs and underlies those fantasies. In the national imaginary, according to Chang, racial subjects are often perceived as the source of jouissance, which they supposedly embody through their excesses of violence, sexuality, anger, and ecstasy--excesses that threaten to overwhelm the social order.To examine her argument that racism ascribes too much, rather than a lack of, humanity, Chang analyzes domestic accounts by Asian American writers, including Fae Myenne Ng's Bone, Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son, Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker, and Suki Kim's The Interpreter. Employing careful reading and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Chang finds sites of excess and shock: they are not just narratives of trauma; they produce trauma as well. They render Asian Americans as not only the objects but also the vehicles and agents of inhuman suffering. And, claims Chang, these novels disturb yet strangely exhilarate the reader through characters who are objects of racism and yet inhumanly enjoy their suffering and the suffering of others.Through a detailed investigation of "family business" in works of Asian American life, Chang shows that by identifying with the nation's psychic disturbance, Asian American characters ethically assume responsibility for a national unconscious that is all too often disclaimed. "--

موضوع مستند نشده

American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism

موضوع مستند نشده

American literature-- 21st century-- History and criticism

موضوع مستند نشده

American literature-- Asian American authors-- History and criticism

موضوع مستند نشده

Asian Americans in literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Melancholy in literature

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Chang, Juliana

تاريخ عمليات

20121206113444.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y