ISBN:
9780197557501
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (225 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.895073
Keywords:
Asian Americans in mass media
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Capacious in its scope and its conclusions alike, Model Minority Masochism is a critical yet passionate rumination on Asian American masculinity and cultural politics at large.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Model Minority Masochism -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Vincent Chin's Wedding: Techno-Orientalist Becoming and Asian American Liberalism -- 2. Bludgeons and Becomings: Vincent Chin, Suspenseful Reveal, and the Limits of the Legal -- 3. An Asian Is Being Whipped: The Afro-Asian Superego in the Theater of Philip Kan Gotanda -- 4. Never Stop Making Them Pay: Greg Pak's Hulk, Moral Masochism, and Asian American Ressentiment -- 5. Asians Never Stare into Your Eyes: Affective Flatness and the Techno-Orientalization of the Self in Tao Lin's Taipei and Tan Lin's Insomnia and the Aunt -- 6. White Skin, Yellow Flesh: Transhumanist Erotohistoriography in Deus Ex: Human Revolution -- Coda: Sankyoufocoming -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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