Anne Anlin Cheng

Anne Anlin Cheng is professor of English and director of American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief and Second Skin: Josephine Baker and The Modern Surface. She is currently working on a new book project entitled The Radiant Object: Ornamentalism, Aesthetic Being.

I’d Rather Be a Witch Than a Warrior

The ending of “Mulan” reassures us that she goes on to become a “legend”; yet, are not such honorifics precisely society’s reward for one’s compliance?...