Performing Asian America : race and ethnicity on the contemporary stage

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    • Lee, Josephine Ding

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Performing Asian America : race and ethnicity on the contemporary stage

Josephine Lee

(Asian American history and culture series)

Temple University Press, c1997

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-237) and index

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巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9781566395021

内容説明

An inquiry into how Asian American playwrights depict race and ethnicity on stage. The book offers insights on plays such as Frank Chin's "The Chickencoop Chinaman" and Wakako Yamauchi's "12-1-A", and chapters address gender construction, stereotypes, history plays and class consideration.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9781566396370

内容説明

At a time when Asian American theater is enjoying a measure of growth and success, Josephine Lee tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian American playwrights. By looking at performances and dramatic texts, Lee argues that playwrights produce a different conception of \u0022Asian America\u0022 in accordance with their unique set of sensibilities. For instance, some Asian American playwrights critique the separation of issues of race and ethnicity from those of economics and class, or they see ethnic identity as a voluntary choice of lifestyle rather than an impetus for concerted political action. Others deal with the problem of cultural stereotypes and how to reappropriate their power. Lee is attuned to the complexities and contradictions of such performances, and her trenchant thinking about the criticisms lobbed at Asian American playwrights -- for their choices in form, perpetuation of stereotype, or apparent sexism or homophobia -- leads her to question how the presentation of Asian American identity in the theater parallels problems and possibilities of identity offstage as well. Discussed are better-known plays such as Frank Chin's The Chickencoop Chinaman, David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, and Velina Hasu Houston's Tea, and new works like Jeannie Barroga's Walls and Wakako Yamauchi's 12-1-a.

目次

CONTENTS Acknowledgments 1 Critical Strategies for Reading Asian American Drama 2 The Asian American Spectator and the Politics of Realism 3 The Chinaman's Unmanly Grief 4 The Seduction of the Stereotype 5 Acts of Exclusion: Asian American History Plays 6 Asian American Doubles and the Soul Under Capitalism 7 Staging "Passing" on the Borders of the Body Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index

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