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EN326 Arts of Gender
This is Your Life Clip & David Serlin's Chapter "Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens"
- surgery as a tool of reconstruction
- keloid girls
- sensationalization and publiciing as a grand medical gesture of erasing and repairing the wounds and physical scars from WWII
- double-edged sword of technology: medicine but also warfare
- white hero complex"
- Tanimoto's wife asked to wear a kimono for the episode
- minimization of the absolute destruction
- shaking of hands with the pilots (everybody hug and pretend it's all over)
- propaganda
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Fox Girl
- "Capital T trauma"
- pg. 10 blue black skin
- pg. 126 veins
- "your face is a map"
- disownment and prostitution
- mental vs physical
- "throwaway children"
- erasure
- American commodities
- "once you bleed, it's all over"
- Korean myths about transformation and beauty of the woman
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Monica Ong - Silent Anatomies
- medical rehab of some sort
- naturalization
- hiroshima maidens (ref to This is Our Life)
- the fragility and the emphasis on whiteness
- racialized packaging and presentation
- lack of vocabulary and taboo language
- self-censorship and suppression of voice
- speech impediment: pathological and self-imposed
- metal and glass used to show the inflexibility of expression
- mutation and deformation through the reading of the definitions on the vials
- "dysplasia and displease"
- self-preservation
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Mila Zuo - Carnal Orient
- hunger and desire channeled into sexual desire
- mangled and manhandled
- the only East Asian man is disabled and is a worker
- tearing apart the woman that is actually the man
- anticipation of carnage and violence
- woman dressed in fans and features greatly exaggerated
- objects and decorations laid out that guides the iewer into the assumptions of orientalism
- movement almost as if manipulated by a puppeteer
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Moraga's "Preface: Enough is Enough" and Mitsuye Yamada's "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster" in This Bridge Called My Back (pp. 4-10 and pp. 16-21 in PDF)
- body parts are representative of more (ref to Ong)
- unmaking and remaking of the world and the power structures
- critical analysis of systems and advances towards creating a different approach
- Femicide and predetermination of death from being in a position to be oppressed
- Change never comes from moderation-- and it is called "radical"
- misuse of agency and misunderstanding of it
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Jack London's The Unparalled Invasion - Biological Warfare
- the description of China and the general East as alien and an ethnic other that cannot understand the West and viceversa
- China’s method of conquest: immigration, fighting, settling down
- The West and the Great Truce decide to act on a secret plan devised by Jacobus Laningdale May 1, 1976
- China as the dormant power --> China awakens and works on buidling itself up instead of conquering lands
- Fascination by Western ideas by the Japanese
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Edward Said - Orientalism
- Creation of the idea of the Orient to explain the East in the context of the West
- The whole creation of these labels and dichotomization is meant to be a way of understanding and making the unfamiliar familiar, but it is flawed as it is still very much biased and even perhaps twinged with ethnic superiority
- The idea of the ethnic and cultural other that is present in the Palumbo-Liu reading is consistent with that of Said in which the concept is very much constructed by the West, for the West. It was a way that the Westerners used to give some semblance of understanding of the “Oriental” mind.
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Palumbo-Liu - Chapter: Pacific America: Projection, Introjection, and the Beginnings of Modern Asian America
- the idea of the hyphenated American and the pure American
- Western concept of ethnic other
- separation of identities due to opportunity
- inclusivity double standards
- "essential difference of racialized peoples"
- the complexity of identity and what entails identity (psyche, body, and environment)
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Sui Sin Far - "Leaves From the Mental Portfolio of a Eurasian" & "Its Wavering Image"
- “Pulled from play to inspection”
- The tension between being half Chinese and half White
- War-like and militaristic language in talking about the conflict (219)
- The alienation even with her own parents
- China is a heathen country being civilized by England
- Change between shrinking away to believing in an inherent superiority (221)
- Prejudice can be eradicated with association (226)
- Individuality is more than nationality (229)
- The issue of coexistence
- Tension of fidelity between father and Mark (63)
- Emotional expression and innate humanness is White, not Chinese
- Mark assigns whiteness to her psyche (ref to Palumbo-Liu)
- Narrative dominance where Pan's body is fetishized and desired, but not her culture (ref to Foucault)
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Celine Parrenas Shimizu - Hypersexuality of Race
- “Bind of representation” as bondage of Asian/American women
- “Any Asian/American woman who must understand her identity and her possibilities must engage hypersexuality in representation” (16)
- Hypersexuality for Asian American women is a network of social forces that ground their legibility in culture, as terms for self-recognition and as condition of social marginalization that leads to opportunities for creative self-invention (17)
- Lotus blossom and dragon lady dichotomy
- Her self-formation must occur in terms of redefining sex (20)
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Michel Foucalt - History of Sexuality "The Implantation of the Perverse"
- power
- sexualities are part of an expanding system of social control wherein sexuality is segmented and policed while simultaneously being reproduced and expanded by those systems
- rejection of heteronormative and politically conservative ideas
- 18th century nature = normalcy
- 19th century perversion = peripheral or other members of society
- "somber madness of sex"
- medicalization and criminalization of the sexual others
- practice --> identity
- power directed at new species was to scrutinize instead of repress; fascination with it
- there is pleasure and power in escaping the social policing by the puritanical majority
- the tension between the proliferation of the power system and the liberation found in labels or descriptions
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The Cheat Film
- fetishization of man
- power dynamics and money
- gendered hierarchy
- emasculation but retain seductive qualities
- "this is my defense"
- race and power
- branding as a sign of ownership and domination
- branding as double-edged sword as it is also Edith's defense -- animality of the female body
- the flimsiness of objectivity
- Mr. Hardy's freedom is anticipatory of the crowd's freedom from the racial otherness
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David Henry Hwang - M Butterfly
Act I Madame Butterfly Play
- “Purchased the rights” to Butterfly for 65 cents
- Marriage laws - separate for a month = annulment
- Pinkerton set to leave to go back to America and he is not planning on taking her with him
- It’s true what they say about Oriental girls. They want to be treated bad! - Pinkerton Scene 3
- You don’t have to ask! They don’t have to say yes! - Marc Scene 4
- Butterfly aged 15
- Not lust, but power
- Butterfly kills herself after she hears that Pinkerton remarried and Pinkerton had the child she bore sent to him
Act I M Butterfly real life
- When a woman calls a man her “friend”, she’s calling him a eunuch or a homosexual - Gallimard Scene 11
- Act I ends with Song Liling admitting to Gallimard that she is his butterfly and they head off to have sex in her bedroom
Act II
- Gallimard tells Toulon that the Americans should try to find union with Vietnam
- "Orientals" will always submit to a higher power
- Comrade Chin and Song Liling interaction -- China above all else
- Facade, deception, Imperialism, and the power of attraction
- "I live in China, not with the Chinese" - Toulon
- Performance of masculinity
- Pregnancy (61)
- Faceted performance
- Song removes her facade at the end of act
- Role reversal
Act III
- Song's narration of his story and how he manipulated Gallimard to carry out his spy duties
- Song completely shatters the illusion for Gallimard
- Gallimard even tries to deny the biological components that point Song to be a man
- Gallimard decides to commit to his imagination and he decides to become Madame Butterfly
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David L. Eng - Racial Castration
- Racialized people as savage/uncivilized --> primitive psyche --> sexual impropriety --> liable to forbidden sexual impulses --> sexuality and race ultimately connected
- heterosexuality identity is the product of society's abhorrence to homosexuality/the sexually perverse
- Asian American males when feminized shape them to be emasculated or homosexualized
- economic exploitation, political disenfranchisement, and economic analysis
- Chinatown as a "bachelor" community (space to be considered queer and not a space for family formation)
- reification --> performance
- racism and sexism should be understood as "mutually constitutive"
- Racial castration
- whiteness as an integral part the Orientalist fantasy
- whiteness as invisible because it's become "normal" and the "point of reference"
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Leslie Bow - Racist Cute
- commodity fetishism
- affective economy
- infantilization and the "aura of innocence"
- aestheticizing anti-Asian bias
- chinoiserie and japonisme
- assuming a position of power over it
- erasing of racist history and experiences through the affective psychology
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Hwang and Parrenas - The Gendered Racialization of Asian Women as Villainous Temptresses
- hypersexualization implies immorality, which in turn threatens the social order and justifies asian women's disposibility
- the narrative around sex addiction reinserts the asian woman into this box
- idea of male victimhood
- moral duplicity
- film, legislation
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bell hooks - The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators
- power in looking
- competing layers of womanhood
- pleasure in taking a defensive approach towards the pleasure of consumption pg. 123 (ref to Zuo)
- scopeophilia
- engagement in media also engagement in negation of black representation
- can't express pleasure if pain cannot be expressed either
- "ultra whiteness"
- the phallocentric gaze
- conventional representations of Black women have done it violence
- cinematic "gaslighting"
- feminist film theory participates in the abstraction of women
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"Introduction" and Fay Chiang poems (pp. 23-29) in Ordinary Women: Mujeres Comunes: An Anthology of Poetry by NYC Women
- lady / lady of the night
- fantasies and fetishes
- orientalized vision of women: mysterious or innocent and childlike
- affective theory (ref to Leslie Bow)
- green card marriages
- inherent power structures (ref to Foucault) in play with american born vs born in china
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Mel Chen - Animacies Chapter 3: Queer Animality
- hierarchy of animacy
- races and sexualities being tied to specific animals
- affect theory
- racial triangulation white, African American, and Asian
- scientific racism and simianization
- feminization and felinization of Asians
- transspecies and transgender representations?
- the missing Asian male phallus is countered by a female hypersexuality ranging in representation from the submissive geisha to the "dragon lady" (121)
- animacy theory: the complex intersections of "wildness", "bestiality" and what is "material" and "imaginary," all while being connected to "what it means to be human" (122)
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Larissa Lai - Tiger Flu
- overharvested body
- tiger flu mostly infects men
- Dr. Kirilow, starfish, and duplication of organs
- Chang and Eng are satellites (futuristic gods)
- salty slur
- doublers and starfish
- Grist sisters are clones produced by Gemini to work in their HoST factories
- parthogenesis
- Saltwater City need men in order to reproduce
- Grist Village self-sustaining and regenerating
- Names of Grist members relating to plants and nature and science
- techno-orientalism vs orientalism
- reduced to robotic and inhumanity
- almost superiority of the woman's body
- war and conflict
- displacement, genocide, and violence
- understanding trauma
- recognition of pain and the lived experiences instead of just replacing it and never acknowledging it
- starfish tree
- the eventual breakdown of a "perfect" system
- frailty of human life
- obsession with immortality
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Judith Butler - Bodies that Matter - "Critically Queer"
- performative acts are forms of authoritative speech
- power and authority in performance through repetition and citation
- a performative "works" to the extent that it draws on and covers over the constitutive conventions by which it is mobilized
- there is power in denaturalization and subversion
- femeninity is thus not the product of a choice but a forcible citation of a norm
- Butler points out that “queer” as a label has been used not only to identify non-heterosexual populations, but to alienate
- Restructuring understandings and the political agenda (ref to Shimizu/s Hypersexuality of Race)
- M Butterfly and Song as a performative and using drag to decentralize the ideas of sex and heteronormative relations (ref to Hwang)
- Productive perversity (ref to Foucault)
- Heterosexuality as melancholic
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Daughter of the Dragon
- family feud
- conflicting loyalties
- fantasy and sexualization
- "i will be your son!"
- perseverance of the lineage
- Fu Manchu represents shadows, the unknown, the lurking, the defilation of the domestic and private space
- mysticism and defiance of the laws of the natural world
- the threat of yellow peril
- "sleeping dragon" motif
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Anne Anlin Cheng - Ornamentalism Intro
- consecrated and desecrated
- yellow woman as the paradoxical way that Asian women are perceived
- in-between body ornament
- perihumanity: the peculiar in-and-out position of an Asian woman with respect to her humanness and her objectness
- parahumanity: not considered human beings, but not precisely human
- ornamentalism: exploration of transitive properties of persons and things (3)
- ornament: refers to the insignificant, the superfluous, the shallow and excessive (15) associated with the Oriental
- tying Asian bodies to amorality
- paradox of drawn to and repulsion of ornament
- indispensability vs expendability
- ornamentalism as a framework for a "yellow feminist theory"
- black femininity as "vestibular" and Asian femininity as "ornamental"
- anxiety of ornament
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