Racial beings : experiments in Asian American new materialisms /

"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....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Huang, Michelle N., 1987- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.
Series:	ANIMA (Duke University Press)
Subjects:	American literature > Asian American authors. Asian American art > Themes, motives. Asian Americans in literature. Racism in literature. Race in literature. Material culture in literature. Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique > Critique et interprétation. Art américain (asiatique) > Thèmes, motifs. Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature. Racisme dans la littérature. Race dans la littérature. Culture matérielle dans la littérature. Identité dans la littérature. American literature > Asian American authors Asian American art Asian Americans in literature Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature Material culture in literature Race in literature Racism in literature

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.