Excess and masculinity in Asian cultural productions
By: Kwai-Cheung Lo.
Series: SUNY series in global modernity
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781438432090
Subjects: Masculinity in popular culture -- China; Popular culture -- China; China -- Civilization, Modern -- 21st century; Asia -- Civilization, Modern -- 21st century
Description: In Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions, Kwai-Cheung Lo explores the excesses associated with the phenomenal economic growth in East Asia, including surplus capital, environmental waste, and the unbalanced ratio of men to women in the region, connecting the production of capitalist "excess" to the production of new forms of transnational Asian masculinity. Lo draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxist ideas as well as gender theory in his examination of East Asian cultural products such as religious and parenting books, transgender literary fantasies, travel writing, gangster movies, female action heroes, and online games. Through this analysis, Lo argues that the excess of Asia's "masculine" modernization throws into relief the internal inconsistencies of capitalism itself, posing new challenges to the order of global capitalism and suggesting new possible configurations of global modernity --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.