Inhuman Citizenship Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature

Name: Inhuman Citizenship Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature
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ISBN: 9780816674442

ISBN-10: 0816674442

ISBN-13: 9780816674442

Edition: 2012

Authors: Juliana Chang

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InInhuman Citizenship, Juliana Chang claims that literary representations of Asian American domesticity may be understood as symptoms of America’s relationship to its national fantasies and to the “jouissance”—a Lacanian term signifying a violent yet euphoric shattering of the self—that both overhangs and underlies those fantasies. In the national imaginary, according to Chang, racial subjects are often perceived as the source of jouissance, which they supposedly embody through their excesses of violence, sexuality, anger, and ecstasy—excesses that threaten to overwhelm the social order.To examine her argument that racism ascribes too much, rather than a lack of, humanity, Chang analyzes…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 10/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.682



Introduction: Inhuman Citizenship



Melancholic Citizenship: The Living Dead and Fae Myenne Ng's Bone



Shameful Citizenship: Animal Jouissance and Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son



Romantic Citizenship: Immigrant-Nation Romance, the Antifetish, and Chang-rae Leeï¿½s Native Speaker



Perverse Citizenship: The Death Drive and Suki Kimï¿½s The Interpreter


Coda


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index