David L. Eng is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, also affiliated with the Asian American Studies Program. His scholarly work delves into complex intersections of identity, race, and postcolonial theory within literary and cultural studies. Eng critically examines how these concepts shape narrative and understanding, offering profound insights into the construction of subjectivity and belonging in diverse contexts.
David L. Eng and Shinhee Han draw on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore how first- and second-generation Asian American young adults deal with difficulties such as depression, suicide, and coming out within the larger social context of race, immigration, and sexuality.
Bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory and explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. This title examines images - literary, visual, and filmic - that configure past and contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer. schovat popis