Queer Chimerica
Blending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer Chimerica unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the Unite...
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2025
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| description | Blending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer Chimerica unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the United States. By examining the intersecting timelines of the rise of queer theory and the rise of China in the late Cold War era, Shana Ye explores the relationship between the discourse of queer fluidity and capital’s demands for labor flexibility.
Drawing on rare archival material and oral historical accounts of queer life from the 1950s to the late 2010s, the author shows how these accounts make sense of the variegated landscapes of desires, transformations, and conundrums in postsocialist China. The author illustrates party cadres in the Cultural Revolution, tongzhi activism mediated by the explosive politics of Tiananmen upheaval, HIV/AIDS community outreach workers, feminist artists and digital activists, leftist queer theorists, and fictional bio-engineers, layering these vivid depictions to reveal the poetic messiness of queer world-making. Queer Chimerica offers insight into the governmentality of LGBT rights, the rules of legibility and recognition, the geo- and bio-politics of identity, and the class-ridden appropriation of queer history and community. Thus understanding the production of queerness unveils the uneven distributions of capital, knowledge, affect, and opportunity that reproduce queer precarity and agency. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1532592025-07-30T08:59:47Z Queer Chimerica Ye, Shana Leodar transnational queer studies, LGBTQ, transnational feminism, queer of color critique, China, Chimerica, autoethnography, critical fabulation, queer speculation, queer sci fi, queer social reproduction, queer socialism, queer Marxism, Cold War sexual culture, postcolonialism, postsocialism, queer liberalism, Cultural Revolution, racial capitalism, fungibility, HIVAIDS, NGOs, sexual labor, affect, affective labor, global division of labor, homopostsocialism, homonormativity, homonationalism, homocapitalism, history is what hurts, ku'er, tongzhi, lala thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history Blending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer Chimerica unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the United States. By examining the intersecting timelines of the rise of queer theory and the rise of China in the late Cold War era, Shana Ye explores the relationship between the discourse of queer fluidity and capital’s demands for labor flexibility. Drawing on rare archival material and oral historical accounts of queer life from the 1950s to the late 2010s, the author shows how these accounts make sense of the variegated landscapes of desires, transformations, and conundrums in postsocialist China. The author illustrates party cadres in the Cultural Revolution, tongzhi activism mediated by the explosive politics of Tiananmen upheaval, HIV/AIDS community outreach workers, feminist artists and digital activists, leftist queer theorists, and fictional bio-engineers, layering these vivid depictions to reveal the poetic messiness of queer world-making. Queer Chimerica offers insight into the governmentality of LGBT rights, the rules of legibility and recognition, the geo- and bio-politics of identity, and the class-ridden appropriation of queer history and community. Thus understanding the production of queerness unveils the uneven distributions of capital, knowledge, affect, and opportunity that reproduce queer precarity and agency. 2025-02-27T04:13:18Z 2025-02-27T04:13:18Z 2025-02-24T11:22:15Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98904 9780472077007 9780472057009 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/153259 eng Global Queer Asias open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98904/1/9780472904648.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98904/1/9780472904648.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12531948 10.3998/mpub.12531948 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472077007 9780472057009 275 open access |
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