{"product_id":"the-exquisite-corpse-of-asian-america-biopolitics-biosociality-and-posthuman-ecologies-paperback-softback-9781479809783","title":"The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America; Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies (Paperback \/ softback) 9781479809783","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Exquisite Corpse of Asian America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBiopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRachel C. Lee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479809783\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 December 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 24 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Lee convincingly shows that Asian Americanist critique in science and technology studies and analytic that takes seriously the biological in critical race and ethnic studies is not far-fetched.\" (Catalyst) \"[T]he study is provocative and evocative, raising such issues and questions as why Asian American artists (in fiction, theater, poetry, and comedy) are so preoccupied with fragments of 'self.'\" (Choice) \"Lees propositional and performative writing style will prod readers in (Asian) American studies, performative studies, and critical race theory to reexamine their scholarly assumptions...\" (Theatre Journal) \"Ambitious, original, and immensely generative,The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America challenges us to move outside the paradigms of the racialized body weve relied on in Asian American studies.Lee pushes our thinking in productive new ways to consider more broadly how critical race studies might incorporate new concepts and technologies related to the biological body.\" - Josephine Lee,author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage \"Rachel Lees stunning new book explores contemporary Asian American performance, comedy, written word, and a body exhibit that concern racialized, gendered, militarized body parts. Drawing upon Science and Technology Studies and Asian American Studies, with the aid of transnational femiqueer, critical race, and disability studies, Lee eviscerates what we thought we knew about biopolitics and biosociality.\" - Charis Thompson,author of Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003e The Exquisite Corpse of\u003cbr\u003e Asian America\u003cbr\u003e addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social\u003cbr\u003e construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,\u003cbr\u003e authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engaging\u003cbr\u003e novels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. and\u003cbr\u003e internationally—such as Kazuo Ishiguro's science fiction novel Never Let Me\u003cbr\u003e Go or Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats and exhibits like that of Body\u003cbr\u003e Worlds in which many of the bodies on display originated from Chinese prisons—Rachel\u003cbr\u003e C. Lee teases out the preoccupation with human fragments and posthuman\u003cbr\u003e ecologies in the context of Asian American cultural production and theory. She\u003cbr\u003e unpacks how the designation of \"Asian American\" itself is a mental construct\u003cbr\u003e that is paradoxically linked to the biological body.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through chapters that each use a body part as springboard for\u003cbr\u003e reading Asian American texts, Lee inaugurates a new avenue of research on\u003cbr\u003e biosociality and biopolitics within Asian American criticism, focused on the\u003cbr\u003e literary and cultural understandings of pastoral governmentality, the divergent\u003cbr\u003e scales of embodiment, and the queer (cross)species being of racial subjects.\u003cbr\u003e She establishes an intellectual alliance and methodological synergy between\u003cbr\u003e Asian American studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), biocultures,\u003cbr\u003e medical humanities, and femiqueer approaches to family formation, carework,\u003cbr\u003e affect, and ethics. In pursuing an Asian Americanist critique concerned with\u003cbr\u003e speculative and real changes to human biologies, she both produces innovation\u003cbr\u003e within the field and demonstrates the urgency of that critique to other\u003cbr\u003e disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591062253848,"sku":"9781479809783","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-exquisite-corpse-of-asian-america-biopolitics-biosociality-and-posthuman-ecologies-paperback-softback-9781479809783","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}