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Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow

Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

AvDaniel Kim

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This book examines cultural representations of African American and Asian American masculinity, focusing primarily on the major works of two influential figures, Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin. It highlights the language of gender and sexuality that writers use to depict the psychological injuries inflicted by racism on men of color—a language that relies on metaphors of emasculation. The book focuses on how homosexuality comes to function as a powerful symbol for a feminizing racism, and explains why this disturbing symbolism proves to be so rhetorically and emotionally effective. This study also explores the influential concept of literature that these writers promote—a view of writing as a cultural and political activity capable of producing the most virile and racially authentic forms of manhood. In comparing African American and Asian American writings, this book offers the first scholarly account of how black and yellow conceptions of masculinity are constructed in relation to each other.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-10-14
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAsian America
Antal sidor320
FörlagStanford University Press
ISBN9780804751094

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@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