Queer Chimerica

Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child (University of Michigan Press, 2024) unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the United States.By examining the intersecting timelines of the rise of queer theory and the rise of China in the late Cold War era, Ye explores the relationship between the discourse of queer fluidity and capital's demands for labour flexibility.Queer Chimerica offers insight into the governmentality of LGBTQIA+ rights, the rules of legibility and recognition, the geopolitics and biopolitics of identity, and the class-ridden appropriation of queer history and community.Thus, understanding the production of queerness unveils the uneven distribution of capital, knowledge, affect, and opportunity that reproduces queer precarity and agency

Biopower · China · Conversation · Governmentality · Performativity · Precarity · Queer · Queer theory · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Latin American and Latino Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy