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Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair
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ISBN10: 1478028831
ISBN13: 9781478028833
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781478028833
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In Spoiled, Summer Kim Lee examines how contemporary Asian American artists challenge expectations that their work should repair the wounds of racial trauma. Kim Lee turns to the spoiled--the racialized, gendered body and all that it consumes, wrecks, and inflicts in its desire and excess--in visual culture, performance, music, and literature. Reading works by Cato Ouyang, Patty Chang, Wu Tsang, TJ Shin, Jes Fan, and others, Kim Lee highlights moments of hostility and deformation that spoil idealizations of Asian Americanness and incite modes of feeling and relating that relinquish fantasies of wholeness, power, and control. She observes the latent aggressive behaviors and negative affects in Asian American aesthetic practice: the embarrassment of asociality, the imposition of speaking as someone else, and the indulgence of ravenous appetites. In so doing, Kim Lee questions the political desires for repair expressed in feeling Asian and stays with the damage that spoilage creates as integral to the kinds of repair that Asian Americans seek.
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