Sticky Rice : A Politics of Intraracial Desire

Cynthia Wu

ISBN 10: 1439915822 / ISBN 13: 9781439915820

Published by Univ Of Chicago Behalf Of Temple Univ Press Aug 2018, 2018

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Neuware - This work creates a queer genealogy of Asian American literary criticism.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sticky Rice : A Politics of Intraracial Desire
• Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Behalf Of Temple Univ Press Aug 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1439915822
• ISBN 13: 9781439915820
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 226W x 150H x 15D millimeters 226 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 295 grams

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Synopsis

Cynthia Wu’s provocative Sticky Rice examines representations of same-sex desires and intraracial intimacies in some of the most widely read pieces of Asian American literature. Analyzing canonical works such as John Okada’s No-No Boy, Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt, H. T. Tsiang’s And China Has Hands, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging, as well as Philip Kan Gotanda’s play, Yankee Dawg You Die, Wu considers how male relationships in these texts blur the boundaries among the homosocial, the homoerotic, and the homosexual in ways that lie beyond our concepts of modern gay identity.

The “sticky rice” of Wu’s title is a term used in gay Asian American culture to describe Asian American men who desire other Asian American men. The bonds between men addressed in Sticky Rice show how the thoughts and actions founded by real-life intraracially desiring Asian-raced men can inform how we read the refusal of multiple normativities in Asian Americanist discourse. Wu lays bare the trope of male same-sex desires that grapple with how Asian America’s internal divides can be resolved in order to resist assimilation.

About the Author

Cynthia Wu is an Associate Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and a faculty affiliate in English at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). She is the author of Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture (Temple).