Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias by Eng-Beng Li

Description: Brown Boys and Rice Queens by Eng-Beng Lim Addresses the critical paradox of this entrenched relationship that resides even within queer theory itself by formulating critical interventions around "Asian performance." FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Honorable Mention for the 2015 Cultural Studies Best Book presented by the Association of Asian American StudiesWinner of the 2013 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT StudiesA transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, Brown Boys and Rice Queens focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy. Eng-Beng Lim unpacks this as the central trope for understanding colonial and cultural encounters in 20th and 21st century Asia and its diaspora. Using the native boy as a critical guide, Lim formulates alternative readings of a traditional Balinese ritual, postcolonial Anglophone theatre in Singapore, and performance art in Asian America.Tracing the transnational formation of the native boy as racial fetish object across the last century, Lim follows this figure as he is passed from the hands of the colonial empire to the postcolonial nation-state to neoliberal globalization. Read through such figurations, the traffic in native boys among white men serves as an allegory of an infantilized and emasculated Asia, subordinate before colonial whiteness and modernity. Pushing further, Lim addresses the critical paradox of this entrenched relationship that resides even within queer theory itself by formulating critical interventions around "Asian performance." Author Biography Eng-Beng Lim is Assistant Professor of Sexuality Studies in the Womens and Gender Studies Program at Dartmouth College. Table of Contents Preface: The Queer Genesis of a Project Acknowledgments Introduction: Tropic Spells, Performance, and the Native Boy 1. A Colonial Dyad in Balinese Performance 2. The Global Asian Queer Boys of Singapore 3. G.A.P. Drama, or The Gay Asian Princess Goes to the United States Conclusion: Toward a Minor-Native Epistemology in Transcolonial BorderzonesNotesIndex About the Author Review "Through fresh and compelling analyses, Eng-Beng Lim repeatedly shifts the lens through which we view our queerly postcolonial journey. Lims writing is always witty, sometimes hilarious, making this provocative new work of scholarship a pleasure and a revelation."-Lisa Duggan,New York University"Brown Boys and Rice Queens skillfully exfoliates the layers of erotic, political, and cultural investments in inter-racial queer intimacies between the Western desiring male subject and the nubile Oriental boy figure brought about by colonial and diasporic encounters between Asia and the West. Lim elegantly dissects the spell-binding cultural effects of this dyad and conjures new critical perspectives about race, sexuality, and performance. A finely crafted, meticulously analyzed, and intensely provocative multi-sited research, Brown Boys and Rice Queens will be a touchstone for future works and debates in queer and performance studies."-Martin F. Manalansan IV,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Promotional Addresses the critical paradox of this entrenched relationship that resides even within queer theory itself by formulating critical interventions around "Asian performance." Long Description Honorable Mention for the 2015 Cultural Studies Best Book presented by the Association of Asian American Studies Winner of the 2013 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, Brown Boys and Rice Queens focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy. Eng-Beng Lim unpacks this as the central trope for understanding colonial and cultural encounters in 20th and 21st century Asia and its diaspora. Using the native boy as a critical guide, Lim formulates alternative readings of a traditional Balinese ritual, postcolonial Anglophone theatre in Singapore, and performance art in Asian America. Tracing the transnational formation of the native boy as racial fetish object across the last century, Lim follows this figure as he is passed from the hands of the colonial empire to the postcolonial nation-state to neoliberal globalization. Read through such figurations, the traffic in native boys among white men serves as an allegory of an infantilized and emasculated Asia, subordinate before colonial whiteness and modernity. Pushing further, Lim addresses the critical paradox of this entrenched relationship that resides even within queer theory itself by formulating critical interventions around "Asian performance." Review Quote "Whereas most scholarship that examines this Orientalist fantasy focuses on the trope of the brown woman, Lim draws attention to the often forgotten brown boy. Promotional "Headline" Addresses the critical paradox of this entrenched relationship that resides even within queer theory itself by formulating critical interventions around "Asian performance." Details ISBN0814759408 Author Eng-Beng Lim Short Title BROWN BOYS & RICE QUEENS Publisher New York University Press Language English ISBN-10 0814759408 ISBN-13 9780814759400 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint New York University Press Subtitle Spellbinding Performance in the Asias Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Birth 1973 Series Sexual Cultures Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-11-22 Series Number 42 UK Release Date 2013-11-22 NZ Release Date 2013-11-22 US Release Date 2013-11-22 Pages 256 Alternative 9780814760895 DEWEY 792.095 Illustrations 8 black and white illustrations Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2013-11-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161715285;

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