Free Download V. Jo Hsu, "Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics "
English | ISBN: 081425845X | 2022 | 242 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Winner, 2023 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award
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
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