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Expressions of Surface - Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability. By Vivian L. Huang. Duke University Press, 2022; 240 pp.; illustrations. $99.95 cloth, $25.95 paper, e-book available. - Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era. By Esther Kim Lee. University of Michigan Press, 2022; 282 pp.; illustrations. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper, e-book available. - Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity. By Takeo Rivera. Oxford University Press, 2022; 224 pp.; illustrations. $125.00 cloth, $35.00 paper, e-book available.

Asian American Forms in Pandemic Times

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Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability. By Vivian L. Huang. Duke University Press, 2022; 240 pp.; illustrations. $99.95 cloth, $25.95 paper, e-book available.

Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era. By Esther Kim Lee. University of Michigan Press, 2022; 282 pp.; illustrations. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper, e-book available.

Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity. By Takeo Rivera. Oxford University Press, 2022; 224 pp.; illustrations. $125.00 cloth, $35.00 paper, e-book available.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2023

Abstract

How do we make sense of Asian American racial form as it telescopes across political invisibility and spectacular, hypervisible violence? Three recent works in Asian American performance studies help explore this question through the prism of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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