Name: Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics - Paperback
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ISBN: 9780814258453

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics - Paperback

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by V. Jo Hsu (Author)

Winner of the 2024 RSA Book Award
Winner of the 2024 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award
Winner of the 2023 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Winner of the Innovations in Community Writing Book Award from the Conference on Community Writing

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics explores how race, migration, gender, and disability entwine in conceptions of deserving citizens. V. Jo Hsu explores three archives of trans and queer Asian American (QTAPI) rhetorics, considering a range of texts including oral histories, photography, personal essays, and performance showcases. To demonstrate how QTAPI use personal narrative to critique and revise the conditions of their exclusion, Hsu forwards a critical approach to storytelling, homing, which deliberately engages sites of alienation and belonging. Through a practice of diasporic listening, Hsu tracks confluences among seemingly divergent journeys and locates trans and queer Asian American experiences within broader US and global politics.

The stories at the heart of Constellating Home center the voices of trans and nonbinary people, disabled people, and others often overlooked in conceptions of US citizenry. Hsu's analyses demonstrate the inextricability of Asian American activism from queer politics, disability activism, and racial justice, and they consider how stories network individual experiences with resonant histories and struggles. Finding unlikely intimacies among individual and communal histories, Constellating Home provides tools for fostering mutual care, revealing harmful social patterns, and orienting shared values and politics.

Author Biography

V. Jo Hsu (they/them) is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. They are the winner of the 2023 Fellows' Early Career Award from the Rhetoric Society of America.

Number of Pages: 226

Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN

Publication Date: August 24, 2022

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