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David L. Eng - The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy - 9780822347156 - V9780822347156
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The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy

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Description for The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy Hardback. Provides a theoretical analysis of how Asian migration and diaspora support the consolidation of gay and lesbian family and intimacy in our colorblind age, and develops a poststructuralist account of kinship. Num Pages: 268 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of “queer liberalism”—the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. Eng argues that in our “colorblind” age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom and progress, one constituted by both the racialization of intimacy and the forgetting of race. Through a startling reading of Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark legal decision overturning Texas’s antisodomy statute, Eng reveals how the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822347156
SKU
V9780822347156
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About David L. Eng
David L. Eng is Professor in the Department of English, the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and the Program in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America, also published by Duke University Press, and a co-editor of Loss: The Politics of Mourning and Q&A: Queer ... Read more

Reviews for The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy
“The Feeling of Kinship is a timely examination of the persistence of racial and national differentiation within the privileged investments of ‘queer liberalism’ in its particular focus on the rights to affective union in domesticity, privacy, and family. Here, as elsewhere, David L. Eng demonstrates his gifts of critical precision and elegant presentation.”—Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego “Spanning ... Read more

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