Title: Q & A
Description: What does it mean to be queer and Asian-American at the turn of the century? The writers, activists, essayists, and artists who contribute to this volume consider how Asian-American racial identity and queer sexuality interconnect in mutually shaping and complicating ways. Their collective aim (in the words of the editors) is "to articulate a new conception of Asian-American racial identity, its heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity-concepts that have after all underpinned the Asian-American moniker from its very inception. Q & A approaches matters of identity from a variety of points of view and academic disciplines in order to explore the multiple crossings of race and ethnicity with sexuality and gender. Drawing together the work of visual artists, fiction writers, community organizers, scholars, and participants in roundtable discussions, the collection gathers an array of voices and experiences that represent the emerging communities of a queer Asian-America. Collectively, these contributors contend that Asian-American studies needs to be more attentive to issues of sexuality and that queer studies
Subjects: Asian American gays, Asian American lesbians, Lesbians, Gays, Social conditions, Identity, Gay, Gay men, Asian American gay men, Asian americans, LGBTQ essays, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Homosexuels américains d'origine asiatique, Conditions sociales, Lesbiennes américaines d'origine asiatique, Homosexuels, Identité, Lesbiennes, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, Popular Culture, Asian american gays--social conditions, Asian american lesbians--social conditions, Gays--identity, Gays--united states--identity, Lesbians--identity, Lesbians--united states--identity, Hq76.3.u5 q18 1998, 306.76/6/08995073