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Art of Gender: Cartographies of Desire in Asian American Literature and…

- - - - White Replacement Hysteria
      - Modern Ecofascism and eugenic projects targeting people of color
    - - Genocide as a tool for protecting "good", "normal" people from undesirables.
- - - - Using the policing of the "perverse" as a way to create power structures, enact social control, and create cohesive social narrative.
- - - - Do these questions even have answers?
- - - - "China was at last awake. Where the West had failed, Japan succeeded. She had transmuted Western culture and achievement into terms that were intelligible to the Chinese understanding" (London 272).
- - - - Asian Sexuality poses a threat to the stability of the reproductive, white, heterosexual family unit
        
        Threat to the race-state itself :
    - - She is therefore vulnerable to the predatory acts of Haka
      - She needs to moderating control of her white husband Richard to perform her social role and maintain the social order
    - - Ignores real and contemporary sexual and romantic transgressions of racial borders
    - - Arakau is both powerful as a man as positioned as powerful due to his foreign sexuality but is ultimately controlled by Edith's power as a white woman to summon white solidarity in the courtroom.
      - The film is an example of spotlighting perverse sexuality--> Foucault would say this is a way of bringing both parties into one system of power--> in this case white women (people) who want to be conquered by a hot Asian man, and those who feel racial and sexual anxiety about the threat of Asian people.
        
        Does this film imagine an Asian audience? That would affect the Foucauldian implications of the text
- - - - Mark doesn't want to engage with the deviance or realities of a cross-racial relationship--> making Pan white is also a way of maintaining his position on the "normative" side of his sexual frontier.
    - - Responsiveness to art, outward expression of emotion, capacity to understand culture are only accessible to white people
    - - Pan cannot find her own way in life, because of her perceived "racial backwardness" (embracing her Chinese heritage) and femininity (intersecting identities influence Mark's perception of Pan)
        
        Mark perceives Pan as a confused and lost White woman (Sin Far 65).
- - - - The actual specificities of the sexual frontier are unimportant and change over time
      - Power and pleasure derived from engaging with the power structure
    - - There definition of sexualities in one method by which the sexual in made into a relationship based in unequal power: exchanging power, making power, and/or subverting power
- - - - Possibility to grant Asian women access to that power through agency and knowledge
        
        Possibility to mine the constructed sexual identity for political possibilities
        
        "If the Asian/ American woman cannot be imagined outside of sex, her self-formation must occur in terms of redefining sex (Shimizu 20).
        
        "Politically Productive perversity"
      - Use of that power to perpetute systems of hierarchy and subjugaton
    - - So reductive as t no even apply to the fictional characters and situations they are applied to, let alone real life.
        
        Acknowledging the complexities and contradictions inherent in the sexualities of Asian women is an act of recognizing the complexities and contradiction of their (like everyone's) humanity.