04555nam 2200673 450 991079682700332120231213125914.01-5036-0593-010.1515/9781503605930(CKB)4100000004821708(MiAaPQ)EBC5401000(DE-B1597)563890(DE-B1597)9781503605930(Au-PeEL)EBL5401000(OCoLC)1178769654(EXLCZ)99410000000482170820180616d2018 uy 1engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInscrutable belongings queer Asian North American fiction /Stephen Hong SohnStanford, California :Stanford University Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (335 pages)Asian America1-5036-0401-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : imagining queer Asian North American lives -- Tactical diversions : toward queer Asian North American formalisms -- Narrative endurance : queer Asian North American storytellers, survival plots and inscrutable belongings -- Inscrutable belongings in pathology : infectious genealogies in Alexander Chee's Edinburgh -- Inscrutable belongings in cinema : filmic lineages in Noël Alumit's Letters to Montgomery Clift -- Inscrutable belongings in hunting : interracial surrogacies in Nina Revoyr's Wingshooters -- Inscrutable belongings in bondage : degenerate descendants in Lydia Kwa's Pulse.Inscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North American literature. Stephen Hong Sohn provides extended readings of fictions involving queer Asian North American storytellers, looking to texts including Russell Leong's "Camouflage," Lydia Kwa's Pulse, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh, Nina Revoyr's Wingshooters, and Noël Alumit's Letters to Montgomery Clift. Despite many antagonistic forces, these works' protagonists achieve a revolutionary form of narrative centrality through the defiant act of speaking out, recounting their "survival plots," and enduring to the very last page. These feats are made possible through their construction of alternative social structures Sohn calls "inscrutable belongings." Collectively, the texts that Sohn examines bring to mind foundational struggles for queer Asian North Americans (and other socially marginalized groups) and confront a broad range of issues, including interracial desire, the AIDS/HIV epidemic, transnational mobility, and postcolonial trauma. In these texts, Asian North American queer people are often excluded from normative family structures and must contend with multiple histories of oppression, erasure, and physical violence, involving homophobia, racism, and social death. Sohn's work makes clear that for such writers and their imagined communities, questions of survival, kinship, and narrative development are more than representational—they are directly tied to lived experience.Asian America.Gay people's writings, AmericanHistory and criticismGay people's writing, CanadianHistory and criticismAmerican fictionAsian American authorsHistory and criticismCanadian fictionAsian authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismCanadian fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismAsian Americans in literatureFamilies in literatureGay people in literatureGay people's writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Gay people's writing, CanadianHistory and criticism.American fictionAsian American authorsHistory and criticism.Canadian fictionAsian authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Canadian fictionHistory and criticism.Asian Americans in literature.Families in literature.Gay people in literature.813/.5409895Sohn Stephen Hong595979MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796827003321Inscrutable Belongings1756445UNINA