Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias

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BROWN BOYS AND RICE QUEENS SEXUAL CULTURES General Editors: José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Samuel R. Delany Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations Phillip Brian Harper In Your Face: 9 Sexual Studies Mandy Merck Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America José Quiroga Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel Greg Forter Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest Edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan Black Gay Man: Essays Robert Reid-Pharr Foreword by Samuel R. Delany Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion Edited by María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg The Explanation for Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity Paul Morrison The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater Edited by Alisa Solomon and Framji Minwalla Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism Edited by Arnaldo Cruz Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan IV Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces Juana María Rodríguez Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture Frances Négron-Muntaner Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era Marlon Ross In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives Judith Halberstam Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality Dwight A. McBride God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence Michael Cobb Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual Robert Reid-Pharr The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory Lázaro Lima Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America Dana Luciano Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity José Esteban Muñoz Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism Scott Herring Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination Darieck Scott Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries Karen Tongson Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading Martin Joseph Ponce Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled Michael Cobb Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias Eng-Beng Lim Eng-Beng Lim BROWN BOYS AND RICE QUEENS Spellbinding Performance in the Asias a NEW YORK UN IVERSIT Y PRESS New York and London NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London www.nyupress.org© 2014 by New York University All rights reserved References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lim, Eng-Beng, 1973Brown boys and rice queens : spellbinding performance in the Asias / Eng-Beng Lim. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8147-6089-5 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-8147-5940-0 (pb) 1. Queer theory—Asia—Case studies. 2. Sex role—Asia—Case studies. 3. Asia—Race relations—Case studies. 4. Orientalism—Case studies. 5. Postcolonialism—Asia—Case studies. I. Title. HQ76.3.A78L56 2013 305.3095—dc23 2013017728 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Book design by Marcelo Agudo Also available as an ebook. Dedicated to the ones Who in the struggle for a more equal and just world Face the unmitigated mutations of colonial and neoliberal discourses Like infections that wear you out The best among us With the guise of care that protects the Self-same. You watch in disgust, sickened But know better That nothing could wipe out your queer spirit Or the labor of your kind In the solidarity of our minds. This page intentionally left blank ...