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Surface relations : queer forms of Asian American inscrutability

Title: Surface relations : queer forms of Asian American inscrutability / Vivian L. Huang.
Author: Huang, Vivian L., 1986-
Publication: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

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xii, 227 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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 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"--

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Inscrutable Surfacing -- Invisibility and the Vanishing Point of Asian/American Visuality -- Silence and Parasitic Hospitality in the Works of Yoko Ono, Laurel Nakadate, and Emma Sulkowicz -- Im/penetrability, Trans Figuration, and Unreliable Surfacing -- Flatness, Industriousness, and Laborious Flexibility -- Distance, Negativity, and Slutty Sociality in Tseng Kwong Chi's Performance Photographs -- Conclusion: Something Is Missing.

Call Number

JQE 23-200

ISBN

9781478016359
1478016353
9781478018995
1478018992

LCCN

2022004178

OCLC

1292971145
1292971145

Author

Huang, Vivian L., 1986- author.

Title

Surface relations : queer forms of Asian American inscrutability / Vivian L. Huang.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Other Form:

Online version: Huang, Vivian L., 1986- Surface relations Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478023623 (DLC) 2022004179

Research Call Number

JQE 23-200

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