Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability
In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in literature, visual culture, and performance art since 1965, Huang articulates how Asian American artists take up the aesthetics of Asian inscrutability—such as invisibility, silence, unreliability, flatness, and withholding—to express Asian American life. Through analyses of diverse works by performance artists (Tehching Hsieh, Baseera Khan, Emma Sulkowicz, Tseng Kwong Chi), writers (Kim Fu, Kai Cheng Thom, Monique Truong), and video, multimedia, and conceptual artists (Laurel Nakadate, Yoko Ono, Mika Tajima), Huang challenges neoliberal narratives of assimilation that erase Asianness. By using sound, touch, and affect, these artists and writers create new frameworks for affirming Asianness as a source of political and social critique and innovative forms of life and creativity.
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
1140891639
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability
In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in literature, visual culture, and performance art since 1965, Huang articulates how Asian American artists take up the aesthetics of Asian inscrutability—such as invisibility, silence, unreliability, flatness, and withholding—to express Asian American life. Through analyses of diverse works by performance artists (Tehching Hsieh, Baseera Khan, Emma Sulkowicz, Tseng Kwong Chi), writers (Kim Fu, Kai Cheng Thom, Monique Truong), and video, multimedia, and conceptual artists (Laurel Nakadate, Yoko Ono, Mika Tajima), Huang challenges neoliberal narratives of assimilation that erase Asianness. By using sound, touch, and affect, these artists and writers create new frameworks for affirming Asianness as a source of political and social critique and innovative forms of life and creativity.
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
19.49
In Stock
5
1
![Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability](http://vs-images.bn-web.com/static/redesign/srcs/images/grey-box.png?v11.11.4)
Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability
240![Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability](http://vs-images.bn-web.com/static/redesign/srcs/images/grey-box.png?v11.11.4)
Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability
240
19.49
In Stock
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781478023623 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Duke University Press |
Publication date: | 10/03/2022 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 240 |
File size: | 19 MB |
Note: | This product may take a few minutes to download. |
About the Author
What People are Saying About This
From the B&N Reads Blog