Mongrel Essays Diatribes + Pranks eBook Justin Chin
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In a time when memoirs are often less than they claim to be and essays do not say enough, Justin Chin breaks onto the scene with a collection that is a combination of confession, tirade, journalism, and practical joke.
Mongrel is a cross-section of Chin's imagination and experiences that calls into question what it means to be an Asian-American in San Francisco, the effect your family will always have on you, and the role sexuality plays in your life. Whether it be Internet pornography or family history, Chin manages to dig deep and uncover not only the truths of everyday life, but also the absurdities that surround them.
Mongrel is an exploration and distillation of the experiences and imagination of a gay Asian-American whose sensibilities were formed by the maelstrom of '80s American pop culture. A unique collection from a brash, funny new voice.
Mongrel Essays Diatribes + Pranks eBook Justin Chin
Mongrel is an appropriate title for this collection, which covers a melange of topics and does not fit comfortably within one category. It is not humor, cultural analysis, Asian-American memoir or a queer political tome, but contans elements of all of these.In fact the blurring of categories seems deliberate, since most of the essays touch on uncomfortable questions of who fits into what category and how well they fit. The best essays in the book return again and again to this theme, exploring the intersection between ethnicity and orientation, class and gender.
Chin's style ranges from family memoir to straightforward reporting, from parody to mediation, and his topics include everything from poetry slams to more than you EVER wanted to know about anal fissures.
While the humorous pieces can be very funny, the best pieces in the book are straightforward reporting and analysis. "Saved" is an indepth look at the "ex-gay" movement. In "Smile" Chin writes about the sex industry and sex tourism in Thailan. He provides a compelling mix of detail on how the gay sex clubs operate, and analysis of the complicated blend of economics, politics and personal choices that fuels the sex industry.
While this collection is somewhat dated now (the book came out in 1999 and collected pieces written for several years before that), much of what he has to say still rings true, and the rest still provides a good time capsule of 90s-era queer writing and concerns.
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Mongrel Essays Diatribes + Pranks eBook Justin Chin Reviews
Mongrel is a wondrous, devious little book, full of itself, yes, but also full of innovative insights about being a diasporic Chinese in white America and a contrarian gay in a politically correct Bay Area in love with it self too much. I especially like his wry take on Singapore as a homey mall (his first home), and on his trip through the whitey south on a shoestring poet's budget. Justin Chin is a legend in Hawai'i, where I write and teach, and now I see why; and he should send Morgan Blair an inscribed copy of his book so she (one of his teachers)can see that he remembers her amid the postmodern muck of it all.
Mongrel is an appropriate title for this collection, which covers a melange of topics and does not fit comfortably within one category. It is not humor, cultural analysis, Asian-American memoir or a queer political tome, but contans elements of all of these.
In fact the blurring of categories seems deliberate, since most of the essays touch on uncomfortable questions of who fits into what category and how well they fit. The best essays in the book return again and again to this theme, exploring the intersection between ethnicity and orientation, class and gender.
Chin's style ranges from family memoir to straightforward reporting, from parody to mediation, and his topics include everything from poetry slams to more than you EVER wanted to know about anal fissures.
While the humorous pieces can be very funny, the best pieces in the book are straightforward reporting and analysis. "Saved" is an indepth look at the "ex-gay" movement. In "Smile" Chin writes about the sex industry and sex tourism in Thailan. He provides a compelling mix of detail on how the gay sex clubs operate, and analysis of the complicated blend of economics, politics and personal choices that fuels the sex industry.
While this collection is somewhat dated now (the book came out in 1999 and collected pieces written for several years before that), much of what he has to say still rings true, and the rest still provides a good time capsule of 90s-era queer writing and concerns.
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