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Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.: View from the Bottom : Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation by Tân Hoàng Nguyen (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-100822356848

ISBN-139780822356844

eBay Product ID (ePID)177667308

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

Publication NameView from the Bottom : Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEthnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Men's Studies, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Film / History & Criticism

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

AuthorTân Hoàng Nguyen

Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science

SeriesPerverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2014-000759

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingA

ReviewsThis monograph is a generative work for scholars who center comparative racialization and queer diaspora, as well as gender, sexuality, and media representation more broadly. Nguyen deftly engages numerous conversations in queer studies, film studies, Asian American studies, and queer of color critique., Communication researchers who are interested in critical racial studies, cultural studies, and queer theory should find [ A View from the Bottom ] relevant and inspiring., Little or none of the scholarship around the sexual position of the bottom has accurately articulated it as a sexual practice with the capacity to rewrite both shame and vulnerability... [Nguyen] sets himself a part from today's contemporary queer canon of scholars., Nguyen Tan Hoang's exciting book is a compelling account of the aesthetic, political, and queer possibilities of racialized forms of 'bottomhood.' As someone who has been writing about masochism and passivity in relation to queer feminisms for a while, I realize that this is the book I have needed in sorting through the complex forms of personhood, pleasure, and power that bottomhood braids into the meanings of race, nation, and sexuality., Using tools not of the master's house, Nguyen offers a pioneering study of Asian American gender and sexuality with reverberating tools that transform our theory and praxis., A View from the Bottom ... provokes a political recalibration that aligns bottomhood, femininity, and race in tender union.... Nguyen bravely models a praxis of vulnerability that we rarely encounter in academic writing, especially around the fraught and fragile imbrications of race, desire, and power, Artist-scholar Nguyen Tan Hoang's dexterous unpacking of a Hollywood classic, the oeuvre of a gay Asian American porn star, an international art house film, videos by gay Asian artists and the self-representation of online sex sites challenged me to radically rethink the terms and stakes for reconsidering the representation of Asian American masculinity. A profoundly insightful and provocative book., Nguyen's insights allow us to view the bottom as an opportunity for creativity, a position of receptiveness that affords agency and pleasure, and an occasion to build a queer utopic space that offers unbounded social relations with others., A View from the Bottom is a critical and insightful read for anyone interested in media studies, particularly for people interested in the performance and representation of sexual and racial minorities., The book is written with nuance and theoretical sophistication, in a clear and lively style that is at once personable and playful.... A View from the Bottom is certainly well positioned to provoke new conversations--even realignments of boundary--between gay studies and trans studies., Nguyen's book is a welcomed effort to deal with the thorny contradictions that arise when scholarship of advocacy meets the unwieldy reality of sexual desire. Future projects dealing with race and sexual representations, particularly those of gay Asian and Asian American subjectivities, must confront this question and reckon with the insights in Nguyen's study.

Dewey Decimal306.76089/95073

Table Of ContentPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. The Rise, and Fall, of a Gay Asian American Porn Star 29 2. Relfections on an Asian Bottom 71 3. The Lover 's "Gorgeous Ass" 111 4. The Politics of Starch 151 Conclusion 193 Notes 207 Bibliography 253 Videography 271 Index 275

SynopsisA View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meanings that accrue to sexual positions. He shows how cultural fantasies around the position of the sexual "bottom" overdetermine and refract the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality in American culture in ways that both enable and constrain Asian masculinity. Challenging the association of bottoming with passivity and abjection, Nguyen suggests ways of thinking about the bottom position that afford agency and pleasure. A more capacious conception of bottomhood--as a sexual position, a social alliance, an affective bond, and an aesthetic form--has the potential to destabilize sexual, gender, and racial norms, suggesting an ethical mode of relation organized not around dominance and mastery but around the risk of vulnerability and shame. Thus reconceived, bottomhood as a critical category creates new possibilities for arousal, receptiveness, and recognition, and offers a new framework for analyzing sexual representations in cinema as well as understanding their relation to oppositional political projects., Rather than using displays of masculinity to counter portrayals of Asian American men as passive and effeminate, Nguyen Tan Hoang develops a concept of bottomhood that opens up political alliances based on risk, vulnerability, and receptiveness.

LC Classification NumberHQ76.2.U5N49 2014