| #1754177 in Books | Univ Of Minnesota Press | 2012-10-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.70 x5.50l,.66 | File type: PDF | 248 pages | |||""Inhuman Citizenship" has much to offer; it will make important interventions in our current understanding of the position of Asian American literature within larger canons of American literary studies. There is much to be admired here." --Karen Shimakawa, au
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 are often perceived as the sourc...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature | Juliana Chang. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
