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antiblack
antiblackness
Arranged-marriage
Asian American
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BART
Bay Area
Berkeley
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children
cities
citylife
class
comedic
cultural identity
culture
desire
dogs
early oughts
episodic
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explicit sex
family
femininity
fluidity
gender
gender fluidity
gender identy
gender roles
graduate school
homophobia
homophobia within immigrant communities
hook-ups
immigrant
inter-racial relationships
internalized homophobia
Iowa City
Korean-American
novella
Oakland
persona
POC
public transit
queer
race
racialized trauma
racism
racism within immigrant communities
relationships
twenties
twenty-somethings
Product details
- ISBN 9781643620206
- Dimensions: 133 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 2020
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Neotenica is a novel of encounters: casual sex, arranged-marriage dates, cops, rowdy teenagers, lawyers, a Sapphic flirtation, a rival, a child, and two important dogs. At the center of it are Young Ae, a Korean-born ballet dancer turned PhD student, and her husband, a Korean-American male who inhabits an interior femininity, neither transgender nor homosexual, but a strong, visceral femininity nonetheless. This novel is an adrenaline filled ride sliding across the surface of desire and chance through the quotidian turned playful.
Joon Oluchi Lee lives and writes in femininity and feminism. The author of two works of fiction, 94 (Publication Studio, 2015) and Lace Sick Bag (Publication Studio, 2013), as well as various essays on queer theory, feminism, and fiction writing, Joon also blogged about life as a femme feminist gay male at lipstickeater.blogspot.com. Joon is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Creative Writing at Rhode Island School of Design, and with his partner Roderick, co-parent of their rescue dog Nella.
