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Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by David L. Eng, Jack Halberstam, Lisa Lowe is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images--literary, visual, and filmic--that configure past as well as contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer. Eng juxtaposes theoretical discussions of Freud, Lacan, and Fanon with critical readings of works by Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Lonny Kaneko, David Henry Hwang, Louie Chu, David Wong Louie, Ang Lee, and R. Zamora Linmark. While situating these literary and cultural productions in relation to both psychoanalytic theory and historical events of particular significance for Asian Americans, Eng presents a sustained analysis of dreamwork and photography, the mirror stage and the primal scene, and fetishism and hysteria. In the process, he offers startlingly new interpretations of Asian American masculinity in its connections to immigration exclusion, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, multiculturalism, and the model minority myth. After dem
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- Author
- David L. Eng, Jack Halberstam, Lisa Lowe
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822326366
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Sociology
- Rating
- 3.92 / 5 (58 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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