LEADER 04557nam 2200673 450 001 9910810019803321 005 20240229183836.0 010 $a1-5036-0593-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503605930 035 $a(CKB)4100000004821708 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5401000 035 $a(DE-B1597)563890 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503605930 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5401000 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769654 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004821708 100 $a20180616d2018 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInscrutable belongings $equeer Asian North American fiction /$fStephen Hong Sohn 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$d©2018 215 $a1 online resource (335 pages) 225 1 $aAsian America 311 $a1-5036-0401-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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 Noe?l 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. 330 $aInscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North American literature. Stephen Hong Sohn provides extended readings of fictions involving queer Asian North American storytellers, looking to texts including Russell Leong's "Camouflage," Lydia Kwa's Pulse, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh, Nina Revoyr's Wingshooters, and Noël Alumit's Letters to Montgomery Clift. Despite many antagonistic forces, these works' protagonists achieve a revolutionary form of narrative centrality through the defiant act of speaking out, recounting their "survival plots," and enduring to the very last page. These feats are made possible through their construction of alternative social structures Sohn calls "inscrutable belongings." Collectively, the texts that Sohn examines bring to mind foundational struggles for queer Asian North Americans (and other socially marginalized groups) and confront a broad range of issues, including interracial desire, the AIDS/HIV epidemic, transnational mobility, and postcolonial trauma. In these texts, Asian North American queer people are often excluded from normative family structures and must contend with multiple histories of oppression, erasure, and physical violence, involving homophobia, racism, and social death. Sohn's work makes clear that for such writers and their imagined communities, questions of survival, kinship, and narrative development are more than representational?they are directly tied to lived experience. 410 0$aAsian America. 606 $aGay people's writings, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGay people's writings, Canadian$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCanadian fiction$xAsian authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCanadian fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAsian Americans in literature 606 $aFamilies in literature 606 $aGay people in literature 615 0$aGay people's writings, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGay people's writings, Canadian$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCanadian fiction$xAsian authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCanadian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAsian Americans in literature. 615 0$aFamilies in literature. 615 0$aGay people in literature. 676 $a813/.5409895 700 $aSohn$b Stephen Hong$0595979 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810019803321 996 $aInscrutable Belongings$91756445 997 $aUNINA