Model Minority Masochism

Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity

Takeo Rivera (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-755749-5 (ISBN)

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Capacious in its scope and its conclusions alike, Model Minority Masochism is a critical yet passionate rumination on Asian American masculinity and cultural politics at large.

There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the model minority. While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim to disprove the model minority as myth, author Takeo Rivera instead rethinks the model minority as cultural politics. Rather than disproving the model minority, Rivera instead argues that Asian Americans have formulated their racial and gendered subjectivities in relation to what Rivera terms model minority masochism. Examining hegemonic masculine Asian American cultural performance across multiple media, from literature and theater to videogames and activist archives, Rivera details two complementary forms of contemporary racial masochism: a self-subjugating masochism which embraces the model minority, and its opposite, a self-flagellating masochism that punishes oneself for having been associated with the model minority at all.

Takeo Rivera is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University. He is also a playwright whose work has been staged bicoastally in the US.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Vincent Chin's Wedding: Techno-Orientalist Becoming and Asian American Liberalism
Chapter 2: Bludgeons and Becomings: Vincent Chin, Suspenseful Reveal, and the Limits of the Legal
Chapter 3: An Asian is Being Whipped: The Afro-Asian Super-Ego in the Theater of Philip Kan Gotanda
Chapter 4: Never Stop Making Them Pay: Greg Pak's Hulk, Moral Masochism, and Asian American Ressentiment
Chapter 5: Asians Never Stare Into Your Eyes: Affective Flatness and the Techno-Orientalization of the Self in Tao Lin's Taipei and Tan Lin's Insomnia and the Aunt
Chapter 6: White Skin, Yellow Flesh: Transhumanist Erotohistoriography in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Coda: Sankyoufocoming
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.03.2022
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 237 mm
Gewicht	336 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-755749-X / 019755749X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-755749-5 / 9780197557495
Zustand	Neuware