{"product_id":"spoiled-summer-kim-lee-9781478028833","title":"Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair","description":"In \u003ci\u003eSpoiled\u003c\/i\u003e, Summer Kim Lee examines how contemporary Asian American artists challenge expectations that their work should repair the wounds of racial trauma. Kim Lee turns to the \"spoiled\"--the racialized, gendered body and all that it consumes, wrecks, and inflicts in its desire and excess--in visual culture, performance, music, and literature. Reading works by Cato Ouyang, Patty Chang, Wu Tsang, TJ Shin, Jes Fan, and others, Kim Lee highlights moments of hostility and deformation that spoil idealizations of Asian Americanness and incite modes of feeling and relating that relinquish fantasies of wholeness, power, and control. She observes the latent aggressive behaviors and negative affects in Asian American aesthetic practice: the embarrassment of asociality, the imposition of speaking as someone else, and the indulgence of ravenous appetites. In so doing, Kim Lee questions the political desires for repair expressed in \"feeling Asian\" and stays with the damage that spoilage creates as integral to the kinds of repair that Asian Americans seek.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Summer Kim Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478028831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478028833\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Summer Kim Lee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47452709028095,"sku":"9781478028833","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf7a288f-11c8-41f7-833e-c01dd588f058.jpg?v=1761930034","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spoiled-summer-kim-lee-9781478028833","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}