3. The Legacy of Fu-Manchu: Orientalist Desire and the Figure of the Asian “Homosexual”

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Asian America iii
3. Contents ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface xv
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Invisible Desires: Homoerotic Racism and Its Homophobic Critique in Invisible Man 41
8. 2. Bluesprints for Negro Manhood: Ellison and the Vernacular 83
9. 3. The Legacy of Fu-Manchu: Orientalist Desire and the Figure of the Asian “Homosexual” 124
10. 4. “Shells of the Dead”: The Melancholy of Masculine Desire 160
11. 5. The Fantasy of a Yellow Vernacular: Mimetic Hunger and the “Chameleon Chinaman” 203
12. Coda 232
13. Notes 251
14. Index 279