"With consummate lucidity and analytical skill, David Eng demonstrates how intimately related are Asian American identity and generic U.S. nationality--and how central to both are the contestations of masculine subjectivity. A powerful contribution to Americanist and transnational studies, "Racial Castration" more generally demonstrates the potential of psychoanalytic theory as an element in rigorous social critique."--Phillip Brian Harper, New York University

Preface vii
Introduction: Racial Castration
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1. I’ve Been (Re)Working on the Railroad: Photography and National History in China Men and Donald Duk 35
2. Primal Scenes: Queer Childhood in “The Shoyu Kid” 104
3. Heterosexuality in the Face of Whiteness: Divided Belief in M. Butterfly 137
4. Male Hysteria—Real and Imagined—in Eat a Bowl of Tea and Pangs of Love
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Epilogue: Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies 204
Notes 229
Bibliography 267
Index 283

David L. Eng is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and coeditor of Q & A: Queer in Asian America, winner of a 1998 Lambda Literary Award.