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Huang, Vivian L.

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Some Island Unknown to the Rest of the World Inscrutability, Asian Americanness, Performance.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Some Island Unknown to the Rest of the World Inscrutability, Asian Americanness, Performance./
Author:	Huang, Vivian L.
Description:	176 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-01A(E).
Subject:	Asian American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10139647
ISBN:	9781339951324

Some Island Unknown to the Rest of the World Inscrutability, Asian Americanness, Performance.
Huang, Vivian L.

Some Island Unknown to the Rest of the World Inscrutability, Asian Americanness, Performance. - 176 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2016.

Drawing from Asian Americanist critique, gender and sexuality studies, and performance studies, the interdisciplinary project takes up the Orientalist configuration of Asian as Inscrutable Other, asks after its racial forms, and reads for its strategic redeployment by Asian American artists since 1965. I locate flights of inscrutability in contemporary visual, literary, and performance art to ask: what is unique to inscrutability as a racializing strategy, and what can it offer toward anti-xenophobic practices? What does a discourse of inscrutability lend to contemporary epistemologies of race and gender in the United States?

ISBN: 9781339951324Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122841
Asian American studies.

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520 $a Drawing from Asian Americanist critique, gender and sexuality studies, and performance studies, the interdisciplinary project takes up the Orientalist configuration of Asian as Inscrutable Other, asks after its racial forms, and reads for its strategic redeployment by Asian American artists since 1965. I locate flights of inscrutability in contemporary visual, literary, and performance art to ask: what is unique to inscrutability as a racializing strategy, and what can it offer toward anti-xenophobic practices? What does a discourse of inscrutability lend to contemporary epistemologies of race and gender in the United States?
520 $a Haunted by Orientalist rhetoric of the mystical East, inscrutability has troubled Asian subjectivity in United States history as a social, cultural, and legal discourse that casts Asians as perpetual foreigners. Asian Americanist scholars have historicized the so-called unknowability of Asian lives as part of a white nation-making project that dismisses histories of exclusion, labor exploitation, and racist policy. Overlapping scholarship notes how failure to produce a legible racialized self as a candidate for collective politics can result in political if not clinical depression. As such, strands of Asian American activist work have advocated for increased representation as the grounds for social progress. Rather than refute the trope of inscrutability and advocate for improved representation as a justified prerequisite for public care, my project reformulates inscrutability as a dynamic racial aesthetic through which Asian Americanness becomes sensible and therefore playable in contemporary culture.
520 $a The project examines aesthetic strategies employed by contemporary Asian American artists that trouble a racial history of the United States as one of aspirational assimilation. I assemble an archive of inscrutability in the work of artists including photographer Tseng Kwong Chi, writer Monique Truong, video artists Laurel Nakadate and Tina Takemoto, performance artist Tehching Hsieh, multimedia artist Mika Tajima, and conceptual artist Yoko Ono. While the inscrutable have been marginalized historically, politically, and legally, inscrutability indexes that which cannot be anticipated. As such, inscrutability as a concept carries with it not only the threat of demise but also the prospect of hope in the unknown.
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