Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Synchronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Part II Diachronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Queer Genre
- Race and the Politics of Queer and Trans Representation
- 28 Whiteness and Trans Genre, Whiteness as Trans Genre
- 29 Queer Types for Early Asian American Literature
- 30 The Queerness of Blackness
- 31 Two-Spirit Writers and Queer Native American Literature
- 32 The Insubordination of Latina Literature
- Space and the Regional Imaginary of Queer Literature
- Part III Queer Methods
- Index
29 - Queer Types for Early Asian American Literature
from Race and the Politics of Queer and Trans Representation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2024
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Synchronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Part II Diachronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Queer Genre
- Race and the Politics of Queer and Trans Representation
- 28 Whiteness and Trans Genre, Whiteness as Trans Genre
- 29 Queer Types for Early Asian American Literature
- 30 The Queerness of Blackness
- 31 Two-Spirit Writers and Queer Native American Literature
- 32 The Insubordination of Latina Literature
- Space and the Regional Imaginary of Queer Literature
- Part III Queer Methods
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues that queering concepts of literary type provides an approach for cultivating queer readings in the field of early Asian American literature that do not rely on recourse to a search for timeless queer identities. The chapter provides a prospective inventory of queer types within the field of early Asian American literature through readings across five nation/diaspora formations: the Philippines, Korea, Japan, India, and China, with special and initial focus on queer types in the political novel.
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- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature , pp. 502 - 566Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024