The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies

by Rachel C. Lee

Book Overview

Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies

The Exquisite Corpse of
Asian America
addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social
construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,
authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engaging
novels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479817716
• ISBN13: 9781479817719
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"