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Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature

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Description for Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 299.

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 source of jouissance, which they supposedly embody through their excesses of violence, sexuality, anger, and ecstasy—excesses that threaten to overwhelm the social order.

To examine her argument that racism ascribes too much, rather than a lack of, humanity, Chang analyzes domestic ... Read more

Through a detailed investigation of “family business” in works of Asian American life, Chang shows that by identifying with the nation’s psychic disturbance, Asian American characters ethically assume responsibility for a national unconscious that is all too often disclaimed.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
320g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816674442
SKU
V9780816674442
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About Juliana Chang
Juliana Chang is associate professor in the English Department at Santa Clara University.

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