Q & A

by Eng, David L.; Hom, Alice Y.

• ISBN13: 9781566396400
• ISBN10: 1566396409
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-24
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

What does it mean to be queer and Asian-American at the turn of the century? The writers, activists, essayists, and artists who contribute to this volume consider how Asian-American racial identity and queer sexuality interconnect in mutually shaping and complicating ways. Their collective aim (in the words of the editors) is "to articulate a new conception of Asian-American racial identity, its heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity-concepts that have after all underpinned the Asian-American moniker from its very inception.Q & A approaches matters of identity from a variety of points of view and academic disciplines in order to explore the multiple crossings of race and ethnicity with sexuality and gender. Drawing together the work of visual artists, fiction writers, community organizers, scholars, and participants in roundtable discussions, the collection gathers an array of voices and experiences that represent the emerging communities of a queer Asian-America. Collectively, these contributors contend that Asian-American studies needs to be more attentive to issues of sexuality and that queer studies needs to be more attentive to other aspects of difference, especially race and ethnicity. Vigorously rejecting the notion that a symmetrical relationship between race and homosexuality would weaken lesbian/gay and queer movements, the editors refuse to "believe that a desirably queer world is one in which we remain perpetual aliens-queer houseguests-in a queer nation. Author note: David L. Eng is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. >P>Alice Y. Hom is a doctoral candidate in history at Claremont Graduate University.

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroductionQ & A: Notes on a Queer Asian America - David L. Eng and Alice Y. HomPart I: Working Out1. Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America - Karin Aguilar-San Juan2. The Heat Is On Miss Saigon Coalition: Organizing Across Race and Sexuality - Yoko Yoshikawa3. Queer Asian American Immigrants: Opening Borders and Closets - Ignatius Bau4. Coalition Politics: (Re) turning the Century - Vera MiaoPart II: Im/Proper Images5. Creating, Curating, and Consuming Queer Asian American Cinema: An Interview with Marie K. Morohoshi - Ju Hui Judy Han with Marie K. Morohoshi6. "A Vaudeville Against Coconut Trees": Colonialism, Contradiction, and Coming Out in Michael Magneye's White Christmas - Victor Bascara7. Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn - Richard Fung8. Lisa's Closet - Gaye ChanPart III: Keeping Records9. Sexuality, Identity, and the Uses of History - Nayan Shah10. history of disease - Patti Duncan11. Queer API Men in Los Angeles: A Roundtable on History and Political Organizing - Introduced and edited by Eric C. Wat and Steven Shum12. Toward a Queer Korean American Diasporic History - Jeeyeun LeePart IV: Closets/Margins13. Litany - Russell Leong14. Trying fo' Do Anykine to Donna: Fragments of a Prose Work - Donna Tsuyuko Tanigawa15. Transgender/Transsexual Roundtable - Transcribed by Diep Khac Tran, Edited by Diep Khac Tran, Bryan, and Rhode16. Mahu: The Gender Imbalance - Jennifer Tseng17. Curry Queens and Other Spices - Sandip RoyPart V: Paternity18. in his arms - Joel Barraquiel Tan19. The Strange Love of Frank Chin - Daniel Y. Kim20. The Unknowable and Sui Sin Far: The Epistemological Limits of "Oriental" Sexuality - Min Song21. Webs of Betrayal, Webs of Blessings - You-Leng Leroy Lim22. Heterosexuality in the Face of Whiteness: Divided Belief in M. Butterfly - David L. EngPart VI: Out Here and Over There23. Monster - Justin Chin24. Coming Out into the Global System: Postmodem Patriarchies and Transnational Sexualities in The Wedding Banquet - Mark Chiang25. Incidents of Travel - Ju Hui Judy Han26. Transnational Sexualities: South Asian (Trans)nation(alism)s and Queer Diasporas - Jasbir K. PuarSelected Bibliography: Anthologies, Fiction, and Nonfiction - Compiled by Alice Y. HomResource Guide - Compiled by Alice Y. HomAbout the Contributors