Embodying Asian/American Sexualities

by Masequesmay, Gina; Metzger, Sean; Alumit, Noel; Arondekar, Anjali; Bacalzo, Dan; Chan, Eugenie; Chong, Sylvia; Fung, Richard; Irwin, Cathy; in Action Members, Khmer Girls; Lavin, Stacy; Lee, Ruthann; Ngo, Fiona; Park, Pauline; Schlund-Vials, Cathy; Shrake

• ISBN13: 9780739129036
• ISBN10: 0739129031
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This book is conceived as a reader for use in American studies, Asian/American studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies, performance studies, and queer studies. It also contains new scholarship on Asian/American sexualities that will be useful for faculty and students. In particular, this volume highlights-materials that receive little academic attention, such as works on Southeast Asian migrants, mixed-race cultural production, and Asian/American pornography. As an interdisciplinary anthology, this collection weaves together various forms of "knowledge"-autobiographical accounts, humanistic research, community-based work, and artistic expression. Responsive to the imbrication of knowledge and power, the contributors aspire to present a diverse sample of discourses that construct Asian/American bodies. As Elizabeth Grosz noted over a decade ago, feminist theory, and gender and sexuality studies more generally, "has tended, with some notable exceptions, to remain uninterested in or unconvinced about the relevance of refocusing on bodies in accounts of subjectivity." The contributors here attempt to address this concern by maintaining that the body serves as the primary interface between the individual and the social. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Gina Masequesmay is associate professor in the Asian American studies department at California State University-Northridge. Sean Metzger is assistant professor of English and theater studies at Duke University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Embodying Asian/American Sexualities	p. 1
The Rice Room: Scenes from a Bar	p. 23
Pornography and Its Dis/Contents: A Roundtable Discussion with Anjali Arondekar, Richard Fung, and Sylvia Chong	p. 29
The One that She Wants: Margaret Cho, Mediatization, and Autobiographical Performance	p. 43
Novell-aah! A Short Play	p. 51
And the Crow Cries Before He Dies: A Brandon Lee Spoken-Word Soliloquy	p. 61
Queer Theory and Anti-Racism Education: Politics of Race and Sexuality in the Classroom and Beyond	p. 73
The Anxiety over Borders	p. 89
An Interview with Pauline Park	p. 105
Public Agenda and Private Struggles: Khmer Girls in Action	p. 115
Family, Citizenship, and Selfhood in Luong Ung's First They Killed My Father	p. 127
Homosexuality and Korean Immigrant Protestant Churches	p. 145
Finding Fellatio: Friendship, History, and Yone Noguchi	p. 157
Ghosts	p. 173
Index	p. 177
About the Contributors	p. 185
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