Cheng, Anne Anlin
Ornamentalism
- ISBN 13:
- 9780190604615
- author:
- Cheng, Anne Anlin
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Oxford University Press Inc
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 23.5 x 15.6 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng offers a fresh and nuanced theory about Asiatic femininity in Western culture. By exploring the cultural and philosophical conflation between "oriental" and "ornamental", Cheng challenges conventional vocabulary around objectification and Orientalism, instead formulating a more precise understanding of the representation, circulation, and ontology of Asiatic femininity. This book provides a new perspective on racialized femininity by decoupling race and gender from physical characteristics. Cheng traces the connection between the construction of modern personhood in Western culture and the emergence of synthetic personhood in the 19th to 21st centuries, revealing how Asian femininity has been central to an entire epistemology of race. Through its interdisciplinary approach, drawing on fields such as feminism, critical race theory, visual culture, performance studies, and New Materialism, Ornamentalism provides a deeper understanding of what it means to exist as a "person-thing" within the contradictions of American culture.
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