Ping-Hsuan Wang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ping-Hsuan Wang plays a role.
Articles
2023 Coming out for another: Self-positioning against ‘closeted’ gay men in Indian immigrants’ coming-out narratives Asian Perspectives on Queer Discourse, Zhang, Ke and Chao Lu (eds.), pp. 159–178 | Article
This study adopts three-level narrative positioning to analyze the construction of the closet and integrate the identity- and desired-centered approaches to language and sexuality. In two coming-out narratives, the same-sex desiring Indian immigrants in the U.S. portray their heterosexually… read more
2021 “When I came to the US”: Constructing migration in gay Indian immigrants’ coming-out narratives Narrative Inquiry 31:2, pp. 338–357 | Article
From a social constructionist perspective, this study examines three gay Indian immigrants’ coming-out narratives as the locus of the discursive construction of both one’s physical and social location within the changing context. It advocates reconceptualizing “coming out” as dynamic and… read more