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  title info:
    title: Racial beings
    sub title: experiments in Asian American new materialisms
  title info:
    title: Experiments in Asian American new materialisms
  name:
    name part: Huang, Michelle N.
    name part: 1987-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Asian Americans have often been strongly associated with the inhuman, non-human, and post-human in its various iterations-from the historical exclusion of the Chinese in the late nineteenth-century US to the contemporary boom in Asian American speculative fiction. In Racial Beings, Michelle N. Huang interrogates the ways in which Asian American literature and art have resisted the notion that being deemed human is a sufficient antidote to the dehumanizing effects of racism. Taking up an archive of contemporary Asian American cultural production, Huang examines how these works scramble the division between human and non-human, subject and object long upheld in Western notions of the subject. Through a method she calls "molecular aesthetics," Huang tracks how the scientific impulse, animated by an ethos of experimentation, displaces race onto the non-human and material world. Through this displacement of race onto matter, Asian American artists play with the paradox of racialization in which existential meanings are assigned to racialized people's embodied selves but where these meanings are inherently slippery. Reading works by Ted Chiang, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Ruth Ozeki, and Larissa Lai; artwork by Candice Lin; films such as "Everything Everywhere All at Once"; and geographical sites like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and nuclear bombing targets, Huang elegantly traverses the boundaries between science, literature, and race"--
  table of contents: Object: Excavating Waste's Ecologies of Entanglement -- Gene: Rethinking Clone Fiction's Consciousness -- Element: Relating Water's Phase Changes -- Species: Reorienting Alien Encounters -- Atom: Dissipating Nuclear Exceptionalisms -- Conclusion. Race: Accessing a Multiverse of Matter and Meaning.
  note: Michelle N. Huang.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-246) and index.
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: Asian American authors
  subject:
    topic: Asian American art
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Asian Americans in literature
  subject:
    topic: Racism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Race in literature
  subject:
    topic: Material culture in literature
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Littérature américaine
    topic: Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique
    topic: Critique et interprétation
  subject:
    topic: Art américain (asiatique)
    topic: Thèmes, motifs
  subject:
    topic: Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Racisme dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Race dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Culture matérielle dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Identité dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: Asian American authors
  subject:
    topic: Asian American art
  subject:
    topic: Asian Americans in literature
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Material culture in literature
  subject:
    topic: Race in literature
  subject:
    topic: Racism in literature
  classification: PS153.A84 H75 2026
  classification: 810.9/895
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    origin info:
      publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2026
    identifier: (DLC) 2025033595
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  record info:
    record content source: NcD/DLC
    record creation date: 250902
    record change date: 20260407141145.3
    record identifier: in00005779239
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng