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  1. Inhuman citizenship
    traumatic enjoyment and Asian American literature
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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  2. Inhuman citizenship
    traumatic enjoyment and Asian American literature
    Published: [2012]; © 2012
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis ; ProQuest, London

    In Inhuman Citizenship, Juliana Chang claims that literary representations of Asian American domesticity may be understood as symptoms of America's relationship to its national fantasies and to the "jouissance"-a Lacanian term signifying a violent... more

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    In Inhuman Citizenship, Juliana Chang claims that literary representations of Asian American domesticity may be understood as symptoms of America's relationship to its national fantasies and to the "jouissance"-a Lacanian term signifying a violent yet euphoric shattering of the self-that both overhangs and underlies those fantasies. In the national imaginary, according to Chang, racial subjects are often perceived as the source of jouissance, which they supposedly embody through their excesses of violence, sexuality, anger, and ecstasy-excesses that threaten to overwhelm the soc...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780816682126
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (241 Seiten)
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-215