Queering Contemporary Asian American Art

by Laura Kina (Editor), Susette Min (Foreword), Kyoo Lee (Afterword)

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. Taken together, these nine original artist interviews, cutting-edge visual artworks, and seven critical essays explore contemporary currents and experiences within Asian American art, including the multiple axes of race and identity, queer bodies and forms, kinship and affect, and digital identities and performances.

Using the verb and critical lens of "queering" to capture transgressive cultural, social, and political engagement and practice, the contributors to this volume explore the connection points in Asian American experience and cultural production of surveillance states, decolonization and diaspora, transnational adoption, and transgender bodies and forms, as well as heteronormative respectability, the military, and war. The interdisciplinary and theoretically informed frameworks in the volume engage readers to understand global and historical processes through contemporary Asian American artistic production.

Genres: Queer

296 pages, Paperback

Published May 16, 2017

Reviews

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

academia flavored

[Kira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book, really theory dense and uses a lot of lexis for people engaged in the critical social theory discourses. I enjoyed the read, however its not the easiest read and not the most accessible language so I would probably only recommend to people familiar with the concepts and terminology. Overall, interesting and delightfully intersectional read.