David L Eng

The Feeling of Kinship

Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the material and psychic impact of Asian transnational and queer social movements on family and kinship in the late twentieth-century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347156
• ISBN-10: 0822347156
• Artikelnr.: 30213123

Autorenporträt

David L. Eng

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy 1
1. The Law of Kinship: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer
Liberalism 23
2. The Structure of Kinship: The Art of Waiting in The Book of Salt and
Happy Together 58
3. The Language of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Two Mothers in
First Person Plural 93
4. The Prospect of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Racial Reparation
(with Shinhee Han, Ph.D.) 138
5. The Feeling of Kinship: Affect and Language in History and Memory 166
Notes 199
Bibliography 225
Index 239