Eng The Feeling of Kinship

Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9282-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten

Provides a theoretical analysis of how Asian migration and diaspora support the consolidation of gay and lesbian family and intimacy in our colorblind age, and develops a poststructuralist account of kinship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eng, David L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy 1

1. The Law of Kinship: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism 23

2. The Structure of Kinship: The Art of Waiting in The Book of Salt and Happy Together 58

3. The Language of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Two Mothers in First Person Plural 93

4. The Prospect of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Racial Reparation (with Shinhee Han, Ph.D.) 138

5. The Feeling of Kinship: Affect and Language in History and Memory 166

Notes 199

Bibliography 225

Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

David L. Eng is Professor in the Department of English, the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and the Program in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America, also published by Duke University Press, and a co-editor of Loss: The Politics of Mourning and Q&A: Queer in Asian America.