Yasmin Yoon

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We know by now that Asiatic femininity in the Western racial imagination has never needed the biological or the natural to achieve a full, sensorial, agile, and vivid presence. We can now extend our archaeology of ornamental Asiatic femininity from the introduction, as illustrated in plates 68–73. Asiatic femininity has always been prosthetic. The dream of the yellow woman subsumes a dream about the inorganic. She is an, if not the, original cyborg.
Ornamentalism
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