David L Eng

The Feeling of Kinship

Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the material and psychic impact of Asian transnational and queer social movements on family and kinship in the late twentieth-century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347156
• ISBN-10: 0822347156
• Artikelnr.: 30213123

Autorenporträt

David L. Eng is Professor in the Department of English, the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and the Program in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America, also published by Duke University Press, and a co-editor of Loss: The Politics of Mourning and Q&A: Queer in Asian America.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy 1
1. The Law of Kinship: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer
Liberalism 23
2. The Structure of Kinship: The Art of Waiting in The Book of Salt and
Happy Together 58
3. The Language of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Two Mothers in
First Person Plural 93
4. The Prospect of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Racial Reparation
(with Shinhee Han, Ph.D.) 138
5. The Feeling of Kinship: Affect and Language in History and Memory 166
Notes 199
Bibliography 225
Index 239