"With consummate lucidity and analytical skill, David Eng demonstrates how intimately related are Asian American identity and generic U.S. nationality--and how central to both are the contestations of masculine subjectivity. A powerful contribution to Americanist and transnational studies, "Racial Castration" more generally demonstrates the potential of psychoanalytic theory as an element in rigorous social critique."--Phillip Brian Harper, New York University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface vii
Introduction: Racial Castration
>1. I’ve Been (Re)Working on the Railroad: Photography and National History in China Men and Donald Duk 35
2. Primal Scenes: Queer Childhood in “The Shoyu Kid” 104
3. Heterosexuality in the Face of Whiteness: Divided Belief in M. Butterfly 137
4. Male Hysteria—Real and Imagined—in Eat a Bowl of Tea and Pangs of Love
>Epilogue: Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies 204
Notes 229
Bibliography 267
Index 283