Model Minority Masochism
Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 July 2022
- ISBN 9780197557495
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 237x156x11 mm
- Weight 336 g
- Language English 278
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
With this brave and moving book, Takeo Rivera takes a deep dive into the affect streams of melancholy that haunt, taunt, push and reproduce racialized masculinities. With brief personal interludes, as well as innovative means to take up such topics as Asian American political indebtedness to the Black radical tradition, the author skillfully tracks the uses and abuses of masochism in Asian American drama, film, and digital arts. Does minority masochism fuel or hinder toxic masculinities, anti-Blackness, anti-Asianness, and misogyny? The author is skilled at teasing out the complexities in this and other questions through his excellent examples.
Table of Contents:
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
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