Abstract
ABSTRACT Krys Lee’s “Beautiful Women,” published in Drifting House, follows the coming of age of Mina. The story juxtaposes the fairy tale and the bildungsroman which, impelled by Mina’s queer erotics, allows for an alternative, queer temporality to emerge. Mina’s queer imagination disrupts normative temporalities, illustrating what is possible when the junctures between queer theory and Asian Americanist critique are centered in Asian American literature. I argue that “Beautiful Women” depicts queer time as a new way of imagining a queer racialized futurity that is not yet realized, outside of the real and fantasy worlds, and beyond the collection’s pages.
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