Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Minnesota PressISBN-13:9780816674442ISBN-10:816674442UPC:9780816674442Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:American, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC83V9FKGA
In Inhuman Citizenship, Juliana Chang claims that literary representations of Asian American domesticity may be understood as symptoms of America's relationship to its national fantasies and to the "jouissance"--a Lacanian term signifying a violent yet euphoric shattering of the self--that both overhangs and underlies those fantasies. In the national imaginary, according to Chang, racial subjects...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Minnesota PressISBN-13:9780816674442ISBN-10:816674442UPC:9780816674442Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:American, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC83V9FKGA
Juliana Chang is associate professor in the English Department at Santa Clara University.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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