Trans Exploits by Jian Neo Chen
Jian Neo Chen examines how contemporary trans of color artists are tracking and resisting their displacement and social marginalization through new forms of cultural expression, performance, and activism.
“Trans Exploits is a valuable meditation on unsettling and redefining the relationship between trans of color culture and technologies of representation. . . This text charts numerous points of entry for any reader interested in the converging histories of US expansion, dispossession, and detention.” -- Christopher Joseph Lee * TSQ *
“The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen’s deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book’s methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses to racialized and gendered forms of power, surveillance, and regulation.” -- V Varun Chaudhry * GLQ *
“Chen deploys trans of color as always in flux, as in relation with others, as a praxis of solidarity, and as refusal of all colonial and capitalist logics. . . . Remarkably, as Chen navigates the vast temporal and spatial frames, without conflating one context/community into another, they carefully historicize and contextualize each contemporary artist and their trans embodiments.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *
“The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen’s deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book’s methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses to racialized and gendered forms of power, surveillance, and regulation.” -- V Varun Chaudhry * GLQ *
“Chen deploys trans of color as always in flux, as in relation with others, as a praxis of solidarity, and as refusal of all colonial and capitalist logics. . . . Remarkably, as Chen navigates the vast temporal and spatial frames, without conflating one context/community into another, they carefully historicize and contextualize each contemporary artist and their trans embodiments.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *
Jian Neo Chen is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781478000877 |
| ISBN 10 | 1478000872 |
| Title | Trans Exploits |
| Author | Jian Neo Chen |
| Series | Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2019-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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