Sideways Developments by Kai Hang Cheang - 9780472078127

Sideways DevelopmentsQueer and Trans Aesthetics of Global Hong Kong\nAuthor(s): Kai Hang Cheang\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472078127, 978-0472078127\nSynopsis\nSideways Developments examines Hong Kong Anglophone and Cantophone literature and visual culture to trace the forms of queer and trans survival and flourishing in the Asian century. Contesting the cisgender, heterosexual, linear tropes that constitute developmentalist narratives deployed by superpowersfrom colonial Britain to 20th-century America to a rising ChinaCheang argues that sideways aesthetics define the narratives through which the LGBTQ+ community navigates personal and socioeconomic transitions. Through formalist analyses of a range of genres, Cheang reveals the affordances of queer and trans cultures for addressing the question of Hong Kong during its period of promised transition until 2047.\n\n In this mome.