Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America

by David L. Eng

Book Overview

Racial Castration , the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images--literary, visual, and filmic--that configure past as well as contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer. Eng juxtaposes theortical discussions of Freud, Lacan, and Fanon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326361
• ISBN13: 9780822326366
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 9.3"