The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies Contributor(s): Lee, Rachel C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1479817716 ISBN-13: 9781479817719 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Dewey: 305.895 |
LCCN: 2014024570 |
Series: Sexual Cultures |
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" (1.64 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies reading Asian American texts, Lee inaugurates a new avenue of research on biosociality and biopolitics within Asian American criticism, focused on the literary and cultural understandings of pastoral governmentality, the divergent scales of embodiment, and the queer (cross)species being of racial subjects. She establishes an intellectual alliance and methodological synergy between Asian 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 with speculative and real changes to human biologies, she both produces innovation within the field and demonstrates the urgency of that critique to other disciplines. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lee, Rachel C.: - Rachel C. Lee is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at UCLA. She is the author of The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation, co-editor of the volume Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace, and editor of the Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature and Culture. |