{"product_id":"the-exquisite-corpse-of-asian-america-biopolitics-biosociality-and-posthuman-ecologies-paperback","title":"The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel C. Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Exquisite Corpse of\u003cbr\u003eAsian America\u003cbr\u003eaddresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social\u003cbr\u003econstruction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, \u003cbr\u003eauthors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engaging\u003cbr\u003enovels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. and\u003cbr\u003einternationally--such as Kazuo Ishiguro's science fiction novel Never Let Me\u003cbr\u003eGo or Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats and exhibits like that of Body\u003cbr\u003eWorlds in which many of the bodies on display originated from Chinese prisons--Rachel\u003cbr\u003eC. Lee teases out the preoccupation with human fragments and posthuman\u003cbr\u003eecologies in the context of Asian American cultural production and theory. She\u003cbr\u003eunpacks how the designation of \"Asian American\" itself is a mental construct\u003cbr\u003ethat is paradoxically linked to the biological body. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough chapters that each use a body part as springboard for\u003cbr\u003ereading Asian American texts, Lee inaugurates a new avenue of research on\u003cbr\u003ebiosociality and biopolitics within Asian American criticism, focused on the\u003cbr\u003eliterary and cultural understandings of pastoral governmentality, the divergent\u003cbr\u003escales of embodiment, and the queer (cross)species being of racial subjects.\u003cbr\u003eShe establishes an intellectual alliance and methodological synergy between\u003cbr\u003eAsian American studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), biocultures, \u003cbr\u003emedical humanities, and femiqueer approaches to family formation, carework, \u003cbr\u003eaffect, and ethics. In pursuing an Asian Americanist critique concerned with\u003cbr\u003especulative and real changes to human biologies, she both produces innovation\u003cbr\u003ewithin the field and demonstrates the urgency of that critique to other\u003cbr\u003edisciplines.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 05, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703450038579,"sku":"9781479809783","price":73.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/b3lPdFRCdEh6RjFXeDRrdTgwd2FPUT09.webp?v=1763323281","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-exquisite-corpse-of-asian-america-biopolitics-biosociality-and-posthuman-ecologies-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}