Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics: Intersectional Rhetorics
Autor V. Jo Hsuen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 aug 2022
Winner, 2023 RSA Fellows' Early Career Award
Winner, 2023 Innovations in Community Writing Book Award from the Conference on Community Writing
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics explores how race, migration, gender, and disability entwine in conceptions of deserving citizens. V. Jo Hsu explores three archives of trans and queer Asian American (QTAPI) rhetorics, considering a range of texts including oral histories, photography, personal essays, and performance showcases. To demonstrate how QTAPI use personal narrative to critique and revise the conditions of their exclusion, Hsu forwards a critical approach to storytelling, homing, which deliberately engages sites of alienation and belonging. Through a practice of diasporic listening, Hsu tracks confluences among seemingly divergent journeys and locates trans and queer Asian American experiences within broader US and global politics.
The stories at the heart of Constellating Home center the voices of trans and nonbinary people, disabled people, and others often overlooked in conceptions of US citizenry. Hsu’s analyses demonstrate the inextricability of Asian American activism from queer politics, disability activism, and racial justice, and they consider how stories network individual experiences with resonant histories and struggles. Finding unlikely intimacies among individual and communal histories, Constellating Home provides tools for fostering mutual care, revealing harmful social patterns, and orienting shared values and politics.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814258453
ISBN-10: 081425845X
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Intersectional Rhetorics
ISBN-10: 081425845X
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Intersectional Rhetorics
Recenzii
“Hsu’s position as a participant-activist-scholar facilitates immersive, in-depth and reflexive narrative accounts that capture the messiness of everyday struggle … This is a book I wholeheartedly recommend to disability, race and gender scholars, as well as cultural ethnographers and auto/ethnographers, as it cogently and compellingly makes the case for intersectional and inclusive theory and praxis.” —Viji Kuppan, Disability and Society
“Hsu’s exploration of sense-making processes, modes of relationality, and worldmaking possibilities produces a rich and particular narrative of resistance and refusal. Constellating Home is compelling, theoretically rich, and beautifully written.” —Gust Yep, author of Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s)
“Constellating Home will be incredibly useful for any of the many academic fields that are trying to make sense of marginalized communities but struggle to describe and honor the diversity and heterogeneity of individual experiences.” —Lori Kido Lopez, author of Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship
“For those interested in rhetoric studies, trans and queer studies, and Asian American studies, this book offers a case study in queer, trans, and disabled Asian and Pacific islander historiography and storytelling, depicting how these individuals have always forged, and will continue to forge, ways of being ‘at home’ in their bodies and the spaces they occupy.” —Stacey Park, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association
“Hsu’s exploration of sense-making processes, modes of relationality, and worldmaking possibilities produces a rich and particular narrative of resistance and refusal. Constellating Home is compelling, theoretically rich, and beautifully written.” —Gust Yep, author of Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s)
“Constellating Home will be incredibly useful for any of the many academic fields that are trying to make sense of marginalized communities but struggle to describe and honor the diversity and heterogeneity of individual experiences.” —Lori Kido Lopez, author of Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship
“For those interested in rhetoric studies, trans and queer studies, and Asian American studies, this book offers a case study in queer, trans, and disabled Asian and Pacific islander historiography and storytelling, depicting how these individuals have always forged, and will continue to forge, ways of being ‘at home’ in their bodies and the spaces they occupy.” —Stacey Park, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association
Notă biografică
V. Jo Hsu (they/them) is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.
Extras
Spending time in rooms filled with trans and queer family, exchanging stories rather than arguments, and pursuing communion rather than cure—these are everyday acts of defiance. The archives explored in this book honor such moments as substantive and political acts. Constellating Home is named for the term I give to this deliberate storytelling: homing. As writing practice, homing animates personal experience into social analysis, collective politics, and mobile sites of belonging. Through narrative, homing asks readers to sit with moments of incongruity and discomfort and to allow those feelings to open up new possibilities—that seemingly distant histories and experiences might relate to our own; that we do not and cannot know everything; but also that we can move closer to and make time for one another’s truths.
In the attic of The Flight Deck, I am invited into learning that is not shaped by market pressures and meritocratic benchmarks for productivity. We dwell for however long we need on each reading and exercise. The conversation moves with an ebb and flow that is equally comfortable in silence and spirited debate. I think about how academic fields now disciplined and canonized in textbooks on intersectional feminism, ethnic studies, and disability studies began in such spaces. The knowledge codified by our disciplines was first written in zines and manifestos and on cardboard signs. In Writing Rainbow the histories, social phenomena, and cultural tensions examined in academic monographs and journal articles are experienced in their vernacular names and affective journeys. Here is the truth that feminists of color, queer of color critics, crip poets, artists, and other activists from the margins have insisted in languages endemic to and external to the academy: that theory takes many forms, and that knowledge is made in languages fractured and fluent, jargonistic and poetic, textual and embodied.
Inspired by these wide-ranging traditions, this book speaks in a mongrel tongue—what Jack Halberstam has termed a scavenger methodology—a queer way-of-knowing that fuses methods often assumed incompatible or antithetical. In doing this work, I am indebted to the deep wells of knowledge built by DIY radicals, feminist organizers, and trans, queer, and disabled visionaries and worldmakers. This book owes just as much to the communities outside of universities with even longer legacies, who have trusted me with their stories and their ways of teaching and learning through story. I am, of course, not the first to blend narrative, analysis, and criticism. Many of the scholars who established gender and sexuality studies, ethnic studies, and disability studies did so by drawing from their experiences within communities historically excluded from formal academic institutions. Despite the stories these scholars established as intellectual knowledge, many academic fields remain suspicious of narrative, experience-based, and affective methodologies. Meanwhile, many community organizers, artists, and other creators—including some whose labor and generosity made this book possible—have been alienated by academic language and its sterile treatment of histories both traumatic and tender. I hope this book pulls together these discursive communities—not seamlessly, but in a manner that maps those seams, conscious of and attending to legacies of harm. Let this be a stitch toward the closing of a wound.
Inspired by these wide-ranging traditions, this book speaks in a mongrel tongue—what Jack Halberstam has termed a scavenger methodology—a queer way-of-knowing that fuses methods often assumed incompatible or antithetical. In doing this work, I am indebted to the deep wells of knowledge built by DIY radicals, feminist organizers, and trans, queer, and disabled visionaries and worldmakers. This book owes just as much to the communities outside of universities with even longer legacies, who have trusted me with their stories and their ways of teaching and learning through story. I am, of course, not the first to blend narrative, analysis, and criticism. Many of the scholars who established gender and sexuality studies, ethnic studies, and disability studies did so by drawing from their experiences within communities historically excluded from formal academic institutions. Despite the stories these scholars established as intellectual knowledge, many academic fields remain suspicious of narrative, experience-based, and affective methodologies. Meanwhile, many community organizers, artists, and other creators—including some whose labor and generosity made this book possible—have been alienated by academic language and its sterile treatment of histories both traumatic and tender. I hope this book pulls together these discursive communities—not seamlessly, but in a manner that maps those seams, conscious of and attending to legacies of harm. Let this be a stitch toward the closing of a wound.
Cuprins
Introduction Constellating Home: Storytelling, Diasporic Listening, and (Re)Defining Commonplaces
Chapter 1 Love in Constellation: The Dragon Fruit Project and Differential Consciousness-Raising
Chapter 2 Resilience as/in Homing: The Visibility Project and Transformative Taxonomies
Chapter 3 Tendering Kin: Constellating Relations with the Queer Ancestors Project
Chapter 4 To Make a Home: Bodymind as Archive
Conclusion Moving Home / Homing Movements
Chapter 1 Love in Constellation: The Dragon Fruit Project and Differential Consciousness-Raising
Chapter 2 Resilience as/in Homing: The Visibility Project and Transformative Taxonomies
Chapter 3 Tendering Kin: Constellating Relations with the Queer Ancestors Project
Chapter 4 To Make a Home: Bodymind as Archive
Conclusion Moving Home / Homing Movements
Descriere
Examines counterstories where queer, trans, and disabled Asian Americans recover and reimagine shared histories, connecting individual experiences into grounds for solidarity and disruptions of dominant narratives.