{"product_id":"exquisite-corpse-of-asian-america","title":"Exquisite Corpse of Asian America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Exquisite Corpse of\u003cbr\u003e\nAsian America\u003cbr\u003e\naddresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social\u003cbr\u003e\nconstruction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,\u003cbr\u003e\nauthors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engaging\u003cbr\u003e\nnovels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. and\u003cbr\u003e\ninternationally—such as Kazuo Ishiguro’s science fiction novel Never Let Me\u003cbr\u003e\nGo or Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats and exhibits like that of Body\u003cbr\u003e\nWorlds in which many of the bodies on display originated from Chinese prisons—Rachel\u003cbr\u003e\nC. Lee teases out the preoccupation with human fragments and posthuman\u003cbr\u003e\necologies in the context of Asian American cultural production and theory. She\u003cbr\u003e\nunpacks how the designation of “Asian American” itself is a mental construct\u003cbr\u003e\nthat is paradoxically linked to the biological body.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThrough chapters that each use a body part as springboard for\u003cbr\u003e\nreading Asian American texts, Lee inaugurates a new avenue of research on\u003cbr\u003e\nbiosociality and biopolitics within Asian American criticism, focused on the\u003cbr\u003e\nliterary and cultural understandings of pastoral governmentality, the divergent\u003cbr\u003e\nscales of embodiment, and the queer (cross)species being of racial subjects.\u003cbr\u003e\nShe establishes an intellectual alliance and methodological synergy between\u003cbr\u003e\nAsian American studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), biocultures,\u003cbr\u003e\nmedical humanities, and femiqueer approaches to family formation, carework,\u003cbr\u003e\naffect, and ethics. In pursuing an Asian Americanist critique concerned with\u003cbr\u003e\nspeculative and real changes to human biologies, she both produces innovation\u003cbr\u003e\nwithin the field and demonstrates the urgency of that critique to other\u003cbr\u003e\ndisciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54611533726040,"sku":"9781479809783","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/exquisite-corpse-of-asian-america","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}