Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature

by Juliana Chang

In Inhuman Citizenship, Juliana Chang claims that literary representations of Asian American domesticity may be understood as symptoms of America's relationship to its national fantasies and to the "jouissance"--a Lacanian term signifying a violent yet euphoric shattering of the self--that both overhangs and underlies those fantasies. In the national imaginary, according to Chang, racial subjects are often perceived as the source of jouissance,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816674442
• ISBN13: 9780816674442
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"