David L. Eng: Racial Castration

Managing Masculinity in Asian America. USA 2003, 292 pp., brochure, € 24.99
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The author explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. He examines images - literary, visual, and filmic - that configure past as well as contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer. While situating relevant literary and cultural productions in relation to both psychoanalytic theory and historical events ... Weiterlesen

David L. Eng: The Feeling of Kinship

Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy, € 41.99
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The author investigates the emergence of »queer liberalism« - the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the U.S., economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. He argues that in our »colorblind« age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom ... Weiterlesen