Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow

Daniel Kim is Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at Brown University.

• @fmct:Table of Contents @toc4:Prefaceiii @toc2:Introduction1 Chapter OneInvisible Desires: Homoerotic Racism and its Homophobic Critique in Invisible Manxxx Chapter TwoBlueprints for Negro Manhood: Ellison and the Vernacularxxx Chapter ThreeThe Legacy of Fu Manchu: Orientalist Desire and the Figure of the Asian "Homosexualxxx Chapter Four"Shells of the Dead": The Melancholy of Masculine Desirexxx Chapter FiveThe Fantasy of A Yellow Vernacular: Mimetic Hunger and The "Chameleon Chinaman"xxx Codaxxx @toc4:Notes Index

"Through the works of Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin, Kim examines cultural representations of African-American and Asian-American masculinity. He highlights the language of gender and sexuality that writers use to depict the psychological injuries inflicted on men of color and explains the ways that homosexuality comes to function as a powerful symbol for a feminizing racism." - Reference & Research Book News "...A wonderful example of a book that seamlessly merges literary close readings, psychoanalytic theory, and cultural studies...Kim's work presents a more complicated picture of Afro-Asian relations that acknowledges the libratory potential and problematic rhetoric the two sometimes share." —Julia H. Lee, University of California, Irvine