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By Tan Hoang Nguyen

A View from the Bottom bargains a huge serious reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visible tradition. interpreting portrayals of Asian and Asian American males in Hollywood cinema, eu artwork movie, homosexual pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meanings that accrue to sexual positions. He exhibits how cultural fantasies round the place of the sexual "bottom" overdetermine and refract the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality in American tradition in ways in which either let and constrain Asian masculinity. not easy the organization of bottoming with passivity and abjection, Nguyen indicates methods of considering the ground place that find the money for company and enjoyment. A extra capacious belief of bottomhood—as a sexual place, a social alliance, an affective bond, and a cultured form—has the capability to destabilize sexual, gender, and racial norms, suggesting a moral mode of relation prepared now not round dominance and mastery yet round the probability of vulnerability and disgrace. therefore reconceived, bottomhood as a severe classification creates new percentages for arousal, receptiveness, and popularity, and provides a brand new framework for examining sexual representations in cinema in addition to realizing their relation to oppositional political projects.

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