A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) It Books as well as Patricia Highsmith’s

as well as Patricia Highsmith’s Talented Mr

Blending a rich gumbo of genres—from ingredients such as praise songs

self-realization

are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear

A more capacious conception of bottomhood—as a sexual position

A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) It Books as well as Patricia Highsmith’sA View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meanings that accrue to sexual positions. He shows how cultural fantasies around the position of the sexual "bottom" overdetermine and refract the meanings