Spoiled

Summer Kim Lee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"To be spoiled is to be ruined, but to be spoiled also indicates excess, indulgence, and an unfair advantage of power and proportion. Summer Kim Lee offers a brilliant, counterintuitive treatise on the refusal of healing and self-control. Instead, we are presented with a provocative theoretical call for the degraded Asian American subject to reject assimilation and containment and to dwell in unwellness and bad behavior." - David L. Eng, coauthor of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans "Examining what feeling rather than being Asian might be, Summer Kim Lee produces a set of thoughtful close readings that center unruly attachment and a politics of staying with bad feelings. Spoiled is a beautifully written and wonderful contribution to many fields, including Asian American studies, critical race studies, feminist and queer studies, affect studies, and aesthetic inquiry more generally." - Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined