A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation Nguyen Tan Hoang Paperback
A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation Nguyen Tan Hoang Paperback A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its…
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A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation Nguyen Tan Hoang Paperback
A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. He shows how cultural fantasies around the position of the sexual "bottom" overdetermine and refract the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality in American culture in ways that both enable and constrain Asian masculinity. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meanings that accrue to sexual positions.
A more capacious conception of bottomhood--as a sexual position, a social alliance, an affective bond, and an aesthetic form--has the potential to Challenging the association of bottoming with passivity and abjection, Nguyen suggests ways of thinking about the bottom position that afford agency and pleasure.
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