Kwai-Cheung Lo

Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions, Kwai-Cheung Lo explores the excesses associated with the phenomenal economic growth in East Asia, including surplus capital, environmental waste, and the unbalanced ratio of men to women in the region, connecting the production of capitalist "excess" to the production of new forms of transnational Asian masculinity. Lo draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxist ideas as well as gender theory in his examination of East Asian cultural products such as religious and parenting books, transgender literary fantasies, travel writing, gangster movies, female action heroes, and online games. Through this analysis, Lo argues that the excess of Asia's "masculine" modernization throws into relief the internal inconsistencies of capitalism itself, posing new challenges to the order of global capitalism and suggesting new possible configurations of global modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 251
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438432106
• Artikelnr.: 62473778

Autorenporträt

Kwai-Cheung Lo is Professor of English and Humanities at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of Chinese Face/Off: The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong.