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Spoiled

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"Spoiled attends to the significance of forms and feelings of hostility for contemporary Asian American artists challenging the expectation that their work should provide therapeutic sites of identification, healing, and care. Across works by Catalina Ouyang, Wu Tsang, TJ Shin, Jes Fan, and Ocean Vuong, formlessness and deformation express a refusal to become disciplined, self-possessed Asian subjects. For Summer Kim Lee, the deidealization of acting and being "spoiled" opens space for another kind of feeling and relating that relinquishes fantasies of power and control. Observing behaviors and affects that are often banished from the social in Asian American aesthetic practice-embarrassment, asociality, appropriation, ravenous eating-Kim Lee rethinks what it means to "feel Asian" and what kind of a politics that might entail. Spoiled shows the ways that hostility and the damage it can inflict are integral to processes of repair that Asian Americans seek in their aesthetic encounters, political commitments, and social and psychic lives"-- Provided by publisher.

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Introduction : Ripe for spoiling -- Staying in : the autoeroticism of Asian American asociality, in earnest -- Using quotations : the risk of speaking as someone else -- Cold leftovers : out of touch with Asiatic femininity's material remains -- Injured enough : depending on the wounds of analogy -- Coda: Sweet, selfish ends

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Kim Lee, Summer, 1988-. Spoiled

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:19:12.380839+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 24081161

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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