Chris A Eng
Biographic Data
| ID | 845598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris A Eng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris A |
| FAMILY NAME | Eng |
| SIGNATURE | ENG C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America
Illuminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence Extravagant Camp takes as its point of critical departure the multiple valences of the word “camp”: the camp, as a geopolitical space and process of concentrating racialized populations, and the campy as a mode of queer expressiveness. Engaging its double meaning, Chris A. Eng explores how camp and encampment have contoured the figure of…
"Apprehending the "Angry Ethnic Fag
This article postulates the "angry ethnic fag" as a figure of silenced queer of color dissent. Building on the work of artist Justin Chin, it explores how shame elucidates value economies that apprehend specific acts of indignity as having the currency to forward LGBTQ politics while rendering queer of color demands nonsensical. Efforts to recuperate shame often replicate consumption practices that feed on the racial other to nourish an unmarked …
Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction by Stephen Hong Sohn
Reviewed by: Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction by Stephen Hong Sohn Chris A. Eng (bio) Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction, by Stephen Hong Sohn. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. Xiii + 336 pp. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 978-1-5036-0592-3. In this much-anticipated new book, Stephen Hong Sohn invites us to contemplate, on a continental scale, the thematic and formal innovations of literatu…
Why Don't You Love Me: Post/colonial Camp and the Imeldific Fetish in Here Lies Love
Why Don't You Love Me?"Post/colonial Camp and the Imeldific Fetish in Here Lies Love Chris A. Eng (bio) They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but—thank God—all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes! —Imelda Marcos Around the world today, Imelda Romualdez Marcos is often remembered solely for the extensive shoe collection she left behind when she fled the Philippines.1 Her accumulation of over three thousand pairs of shoes, most notabl…
Toward the “Uncommonly Beautiful”: Queer-of-Color Youth and “Delectable Deformity” in Rakesh Satyal’s Blue Boy
The twenty-first century observes a seemingly paradoxical but increasingly evident twinned phenomenon: the proliferated modes of visibility and celebratory narratives around queer (of color) youth in tandem with the prevalent but not always remarked on violence and violation inflicted on queer bodies. Meanwhile, common narratives around growing up often articulate development through heteronormative milestones while devaluing queerness as weird, …
Give it up, Kwang: Disavowing Asian Labor and Queer/Trans of Color Critique in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
This essay is premised on the contention that neither "Hedwig" nor "The Angry Inch" would be possible without Asian labor. While Hedwig's queer labor makes possible the celebrity of Tommy Gnosis, her transformation depends on the disavowal of labor enacted by racial Others. Grappling with the constitutive role of Asian labor in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014) shifts analyses about the relationship between sexuality and labor that the musical sta…
Queer Genealogies of (Be)Longing: On the Thens and Theres of Asian America in Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel
This article explores how familial logics of (inter)generationality undergird narratives about the origins and development of Asian American studies in ways that posit the "community" and the "academy" as competing formations within a generational conflict between a radical past and an institutionalized present. As a counterpoint to such accounts, it examines Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel (2010) to chart a queer genealogy of (be)longing that brin…
Brown boys and rice queens: Spellbinding performance in the Asias
No Safe Spaces: Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater by Angela C. Pao (review)
Reviewed by: No Safe Spaces: Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater by Angela C. Pao Chris A. Eng (bio) No Safe Spaces: Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater, by Angela C. Pao. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. viii + 304 pp. $32.50 paper. ISBN: 0-472-05121-2. Radical U.S. social movements of the 1960s and 1970s regarded culture as a crucial site on which to challenge systemic inequi…
"Apprehending the "Angry Ethnic Fag
This article postulates the "angry ethnic fag" as a figure of silenced queer of color dissent. Building on the work of artist Justin Chin, it explores how shame elucidates value economies that apprehend specific acts of indignity as having the currency to forward LGBTQ politics while rendering queer of color demands nonsensical. Efforts to recuperate shame often replicate consumption practices that feed on the racial other to nourish an unmarked …
Give it up, Kwang: Disavowing Asian Labor and Queer/Trans of Color Critique in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
This essay is premised on the contention that neither "Hedwig" nor "The Angry Inch" would be possible without Asian labor. While Hedwig's queer labor makes possible the celebrity of Tommy Gnosis, her transformation depends on the disavowal of labor enacted by racial Others. Grappling with the constitutive role of Asian labor in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014) shifts analyses about the relationship between sexuality and labor that the musical sta…
Queer Genealogies of (Be)Longing: On the Thens and Theres of Asian America in Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel
This article explores how familial logics of (inter)generationality undergird narratives about the origins and development of Asian American studies in ways that posit the "community" and the "academy" as competing formations within a generational conflict between a radical past and an institutionalized present. As a counterpoint to such accounts, it examines Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel (2010) to chart a queer genealogy of (be)longing that brin…
Brown boys and rice queens: Spellbinding performance in the Asias
No Safe Spaces: Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater by Angela C. Pao (review)
Reviewed by: No Safe Spaces: Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater by Angela C. Pao Chris A. Eng (bio) No Safe Spaces: Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater, by Angela C. Pao. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. viii + 304 pp. $32.50 paper. ISBN: 0-472-05121-2. Radical U.S. social movements of the 1960s and 1970s regarded culture as a crucial site on which to challenge systemic inequi…
Brown boys and rice queens: Spellbinding performance in the Asias
Queer Genealogies of (Be)Longing: On the Thens and Theres of Asian America in Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel
This article explores how familial logics of (inter)generationality undergird narratives about the origins and development of Asian American studies in ways that posit the "community" and the "academy" as competing formations within a generational conflict between a radical past and an institutionalized present. As a counterpoint to such accounts, it examines Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel (2010) to chart a queer genealogy of (be)longing that brin…
Toward the “Uncommonly Beautiful”: Queer-of-Color Youth and “Delectable Deformity” in Rakesh Satyal’s Blue Boy
The twenty-first century observes a seemingly paradoxical but increasingly evident twinned phenomenon: the proliferated modes of visibility and celebratory narratives around queer (of color) youth in tandem with the prevalent but not always remarked on violence and violation inflicted on queer bodies. Meanwhile, common narratives around growing up often articulate development through heteronormative milestones while devaluing queerness as weird, …
Give it up, Kwang: Disavowing Asian Labor and Queer/Trans of Color Critique in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
This essay is premised on the contention that neither "Hedwig" nor "The Angry Inch" would be possible without Asian labor. While Hedwig's queer labor makes possible the celebrity of Tommy Gnosis, her transformation depends on the disavowal of labor enacted by racial Others. Grappling with the constitutive role of Asian labor in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014) shifts analyses about the relationship between sexuality and labor that the musical sta…
Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction by Stephen Hong Sohn
Reviewed by: Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction by Stephen Hong Sohn Chris A. Eng (bio) Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction, by Stephen Hong Sohn. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. Xiii + 336 pp. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 978-1-5036-0592-3. In this much-anticipated new book, Stephen Hong Sohn invites us to contemplate, on a continental scale, the thematic and formal innovations of literatu…
Why Don't You Love Me: Post/colonial Camp and the Imeldific Fetish in Here Lies Love
Why Don't You Love Me?"Post/colonial Camp and the Imeldific Fetish in Here Lies Love Chris A. Eng (bio) They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but—thank God—all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes! —Imelda Marcos Around the world today, Imelda Romualdez Marcos is often remembered solely for the extensive shoe collection she left behind when she fled the Philippines.1 Her accumulation of over three thousand pairs of shoes, most notabl…
"Apprehending the "Angry Ethnic Fag
This article postulates the "angry ethnic fag" as a figure of silenced queer of color dissent. Building on the work of artist Justin Chin, it explores how shame elucidates value economies that apprehend specific acts of indignity as having the currency to forward LGBTQ politics while rendering queer of color demands nonsensical. Efforts to recuperate shame often replicate consumption practices that feed on the racial other to nourish an unmarked …
Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America
Illuminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence Extravagant Camp takes as its point of critical departure the multiple valences of the word “camp”: the camp, as a geopolitical space and process of concentrating racialized populations, and the campy as a mode of queer expressiveness. Engaging its double meaning, Chris A. Eng explores how camp and encampment have contoured the figure of…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)