Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War

Honorable Mention, 2025 Association for Asian American Studies Book Awards, Literary Studies Category

The player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler—but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In Asian American Players, Audrey Wu Clark showcases how the literary figure of the Asian American player unsettles the hegemony of white American masculinity through mimicry, even as that masculinity socially and politically alienates him. She examines gendered and r...