Arts of Gender
The Unparalleled Invasion- London
Lack of willingness to understand the "other"
Orientalism- Said
West always being positioned in the dominant role because they produce the narrative
Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier - Palumbo-Liu
Reductive nature of the label “Asian/American” vs the implied wholeness of “American”
Reproduction as a weapon/threat to the West
Identity is comprised of the body, the psyche, space they inhabit
Orient only really exists when in opposition to the Occident
The Cheat
Reaffirmation of marriage after "threat" of foreigner attempts to corrupt it
He/She pronouns to characterize nations in terms of power
"East is east and west is west and never the 'twain shall meet"
Its Wavering Image -Sui Sin Far
Leaves From the Mental Portfolio of a Eurasian- Sui Sin Far
Expression is intrinsically indicative of one’s humanity
“Your tears prove your whiteness”
Not only does how you take up white space matter, but how you use it also matters
"Individuality is more than Nationality"
To be Eurasian is to have to make a choice
In other people's eyes, you are the identity people assign to you
Fascination with the BODY of Asians
Lack of justice for the "other"
Racism used to justify genocide
Dehumanization - "creature"
The Perverse Implantation- Foucault
Spiraling of power and pleasure
Medialization of sex
M.Butterfly
The Hypersexuality of Race
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Impossible to disentagle the Asian/American woman from racialized sex
Productive perversity
The "lotus blossom" vs. "the dragon lady"
Fantasy vs. Reality
"The Perfect Woman" as submissive and obedient
Critically Queer- Judith Butler
Labels and "citations" as a power framework
The East can never be fully masculine
Intersectionality of race and gender
Passionate attachment
“One must desire one’s own subordination in order to continue as a subject”
Daughter of the Dragon
Hypersexualization around exoticism
Fetishization of the East
Observer indulging in curiosity of the “other” only to use it against them/place guilt on them/alienate them
The performativity of discourse and the performance of gender are inextricably linked by the norms that inform their conceptual frameworks.
Have to chose between competing loyalties- cannot inhabit both
Racial Castration- David Eng
Only way to be a good asian character is to not only fully submit to the west but also to turn against the east
Feminization of the Asian American Male
“The racist treatment of Asians has taken the peculiar form of sexism”
Racist Cute
"Cute anthropomorphic things, I suggest, reveal the ways in which Asian stereotyping in the US reflects anxieties surrounding global market competition."
Pain and Pleasure, Positive affection with negative depiction
Reconstruction of the Hiroshima Maidens -Serlin
“Colonial medicine”
U.S. as the destroyer and the savior
Who controls the narrative?
Attempt to Westernize the East
Relationship of body and personality
The maidens that showed potential to fit into western society or that came from a higher class were more favorable to the American audience
Plastic surgery associated with class because only high class can get plastic surgery
Fox Girl
physical imprint on the body signifying the multifacetedness of trauma & its mark left on a person
The Gendered racialization of Asian Women as Villainous Temptresses
White (male) victimhood
Displacement of guilt and blame
Disposability of asian women
The Oppositional Gaze-Bell Hook
“Violent erasure of black womanhood”
There is no universal definition of “woman” because every woman has a unique experience
The gaze as a sight of resistance
Film and cinema made white womanhood the object of desire
Ornamentalism
Peri Humanity of asian women vs. para humanity of Black women
exploration of the transitive properties of persons and things
western philosophical discourse debases the ornament but is deeply drawn to it as well
framework for a “yellow feminist theory” that dissects the “interface of ontology and objectness”
Linkage of ornamentation and primitivism, modernism with de-ornamentation
American commodities attached to moral goodness
“learned to crave” the American candies just as they learn and are indoctrinated with American ideologies/supremacy
dissonance between what they actually enjoy/like and what they believe they’re supposed to enjoy/like
acceptance, even if gradual and forced, of the American culture
Earlier and Forced Sexual Awakening
Carnal Orient
animalistic pursuit of Asian women
Fantasy of the east built on Western ideals
simultaneous fetishization of Asian women and emasculation of Asian men
intersection of Ornamentalism and Orientalism
Ordinary Women
the voice is constrained and restricted to certain movements
Expression through choreography is constrained to a "script"
Silent Anatomies
Untranslated Cervix
Glass Larynx and Metal Lungs
Restriction of two fundamental human rights: the ability to breath and the ability to speak
Not even having the words to communicate a fundamental aspect of women
Curiosity with but lack of willingness/ability to understand femininity
Saving Face
Familial Expectations and duty
Tiger Flu
Exploitation of bodies
Technological Orientalism
alienation of the east by deeming their technological advances dangerous
Queer Animality
Racial Triangulation
Complex dynamic between African Americans, white Americans and Asian Americans that ultimately upholds white supremacy
Fu Manchu and racialized queer animality
Asian males depicted/associated with cats as a way of emasculatung them
Animacy theory: the complex intersections of wildness, beastility and what is material and imaginary, all while being connected to what it means to be human