Feeling Minor: Race, Affect, and Asian America

How have writers and theorists conceptualized the affective structures of race that have shaped Asian Americans? How do literary explorations of such concerns negotiate the prevailing black-white binary and influential theorizations of blackness and brownness in charting the contours of Asian American psychic life. What modalities of psychoanalysis and affect theory offer the most generative resources for these inquiries. We address these and other related questions by looking at writings by Sara Ahmed, Anne Cheng, Franz Fanon, Sigmund Freud, Cathy Park Hong, Chang-rae Lee, Ling Ma, José Muñoz, Sianne Ngai, and Ocean Vuong among others.