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OverviewIn Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities and communities of color along the lines of gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, and ability. Focusing on performance, film/video, literature, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression and activism that track the displaced emergences of trans people of color, Chen highlights the complex and varied responses by trans communities to their social dispossession. Through these responses, trans of color cultural workers such as performance artist Yozmit, writer Janet Mock, and organizer Jennicet Gutierrez challenge dominating perceptions and institutions that kill, confine, police, and discipline trans people. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jian Neo ChenPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781478000662ISBN 10: 147800066 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 06 November 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Racial Trans Technologies 1 1. Cultures: Performing Racial Trans Senses 30 2. Networks: TRANScoding Biogenetics and Orgasm in the Transnational Digital Economy 59 3. Memory: The Times and Territories of Trans Women of Color Becoming 75 4. Movement: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Digital Activisms and U.S. Transnational Empire 101 Conclusion. Trans Voice in the House 135 Notes 149 References 157 Index 173ReviewsTrans 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 * 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 * 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 * Author InformationJian Neo Chen is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |