The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman

Description: The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America by Rachel C. Lee Addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural StudiesThe Exquisite Corpse ofAsian Americaaddresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or socialconstruction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engagingnovels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. andinternationally—such as Kazuo Ishiguros science fiction novel Never Let MeGo or Ruth Ozekis My Year of Meats and exhibits like that of BodyWorlds in which many of the bodies on display originated from Chinese prisons—RachelC. Lee teases out the preoccupation with human fragments and posthumanecologies in the context of Asian American cultural production and theory. Sheunpacks how the designation of "Asian American" itself is a mental constructthat is paradoxically linked to the biological body.Through chapters that each use a body part as springboard forreading Asian American texts, Lee inaugurates a new avenue of research onbiosociality and biopolitics within Asian American criticism, focused on theliterary and cultural understandings of pastoral governmentality, the divergentscales of embodiment, and the queer (cross)species being of racial subjects.She establishes an intellectual alliance and methodological synergy betweenAsian American studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), biocultures,medical humanities, and femiqueer approaches to family formation, carework,affect, and ethics. In pursuing an Asian Americanist critique concerned withspeculative and real changes to human biologies, she both produces innovationwithin the field and demonstrates the urgency of that critique to otherdisciplines. Author Biography Rachel C. Lee is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at UCLA. She is the author of The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation, co-editor of the volume Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace, and editor of the Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature and Culture. Table of Contents Contents Corpse Blood Introduction: Parts/Parturition 1 Kidney Lymphocytes 1. How a Critical Biopolitical Studies Lens Alters the Questions We Ask vis-a-vis Race 39 Teeth 2. The Asiatic, Acrobatic, and Aleatory Biologies Feet of Cheng-Chieh Yus Dance Theater 66 Gamete Vagina 3. Pussy Ballistics and Peristaltic Feminism 97 GI Tract Parasite 4. Everybodys Novel Protist: Chimeracological Chromosome Entanglements in Amitav Ghoshs Fiction 126 Head 5. A Sideways Approach to Mental Disabilities: Incarceration, Kinesthetics, Affect, and Ethics 161 Breasts 6. Allotropic Conclusions: Propositions on Skin Race and the Exquisite Corpse 210 Tissue culture Tail Piece 245 Notes 259 Bibliography 295 Index 313 About the Author 325 An insert of color images follows page 138. Review Lee convincingly shows that Asian Americanist critique in science and technology studies and analytic that takes seriously the biological in critical race and ethnic studies is not far-fetched. * Catalyst *[T]he study is provocative and evocative, raising such issues and questions as why Asian American artists (in fiction, theater, poetry, and comedy) are so preoccupied with fragments of self. * Choice *Lees propositional and performative writing style will prod readers in (Asian) American studies, performative studies, and critical race theory to reexamine their scholarly assumptions... * Theatre Journal *Ambitious, original, and immensely generative,The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America challenges us to move outside the paradigms of the racialized body weve relied on in Asian American studies.Lee pushes our thinking in productive new ways to consider more broadly how critical race studies might incorporate new concepts and technologies related to the biological body. -- Josephine Lee,author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary StageRachel Lees stunning new book explores contemporary Asian American performance, comedy, written word, and a body exhibit that concern racialized, gendered, militarized body parts. Drawing upon Science and Technology Studies and Asian American Studies, with the aid of transnational femiqueer, critical race, and disability studies, Lee eviscerates what we thought we knew about biopolitics and biosociality. -- Charis Thompson,author of Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research Long Description Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engaging novels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. and internationally-such as Kazuo Ishiguros science fiction novel Never Let Me Go or Ruth Ozekis My Year of Meats and exhibits like that of Body Worlds in which many of the bodies on display originated from Chinese prisons-Rachel C. Lee teases out the preoccupation with human fragments and posthuman ecologies in the context of Asian American cultural production and theory. She unpacks how the designation of "Asian American" itself is a mental construct that is paradoxically linked to the biological body. Through chapters that each use a body part as springboard for reading Asian American texts, Lee inaugurates a new avenue of research on biosociality and biopolitics within Asian American criticism, focused on the literary and cultural understandings of pastoral governmentality, the divergent scales of embodiment, and the queer (cross)species being of racial subjects. She establishes an intellectual alliance and methodological synergy between Asian American studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), biocultures, medical humanities, and femiqueer approaches to family formation, carework, affect, and ethics. In pursuing an Asian Americanist critique concerned with speculative and real changes to human biologies, she both produces innovation within the field and demonstrates the urgency of that critique to other disciplines. Details ISBN1479809780 Pages 336 Publisher New York University Press Year 2014 ISBN-10 1479809780 ISBN-13 9781479809783 Format Paperback Imprint New York University Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 305.895073 Short Title EXQUISITE CORPSE OF ASIAN AMER Language English Media Book Subtitle Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies Author Rachel C. Lee Series Sexual Cultures Publication Date 2014-12-05 Illustrations 24 black and white illustrations Series Number 16 UK Release Date 2014-12-05 NZ Release Date 2014-12-05 US Release Date 2014-12-05 Alternative 9781479817719 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2014-12-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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