Performing ethnicity, performing gender : transcultural perspectives
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Performing ethnicity, performing gender : transcultural perspectives
(Routledge research in cultural and media studies, 91)
Routledge, 2017
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Performance and performativity are important terms for a theorization of gender and race/ethnicity as constitutive of identity. This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars who focus on the representation of these crucial categories of identity across various media, including literature, film, documentary, and (music) video performance. The first section, "Political Agency," stresses instances where the performance of ethnicity/gender ultimately aims at a liberating effect leading to more autonomy. The second section, "Diasporic Belonging," explores the different kinds of negotiations of ethnic performances in multi-ethnic contexts. The third part, "Performances of Ethnicity and Gender" scrutinizes instances of the combined performance of ethnicity and gender in novels, films, and musical performances. The last section "Cross-Ethnic Traffic" contains a number of contributions that are concerned with attempts at crossing over from "one ethnicity into another" by way of performance.
Table of Contents
Introduction (Monika Mueller and Bettina Hofmann)
Part 1: Political Agency
1. Old Print Media, Radical Ideas and Vernacular Performance in the Life and Work of Robert Wedderburn and Henry Box Brown (Alan Rice)
2. Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Performing Migrant Identity in Two Italian African Memoirs (William Boelhower)
3. Recovering Queequeq's Body: Performing Alterna(rra)tives in the Borderlands (Astrid Fellner)
4. Limning the Limit or Notes toward an Outline of Activist Performance at the Limit (Samir Dayal)
Part 2: Diasporic Belonging
5. Performing Ethno-Cultural Identity in Reka Pigniczky's Autobiographical Documentary Incubator (Monika Fodor)
6. Diasporic Bollywood: Fusionist Practices and Gender Performativity in Deepa Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood (Pin-Chia Feng)
7. Asian American Family Memoirs and the Performance of Identity and Readership in Transcultural Societies (Rocio Davis)
Part 3: Performances of Ethnicity and Gender
8. Gallo-Gallina: Gender Performance and the Androgynous Imagination in Elena Poniatowska's Hasta no verte Jesus mio (Carmen Serrano)
9. Performing Identity as a Challenge to Heteronormativity: Public and Private Spaces in R. Raj Rao's The Boyfriend (Wolfgang Holtkamp)
10. Performing Butterfly: Medial Constructions of Ethnic Identity (Angelika Koehler)
Part 4: Cross-Ethnic Traffic
11. Asian American Literature and Literary Theory: Onoto Watanna's Panethnic Impersonation in Miss Nume of Japan (Iping Liang)
12. Performing Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community in Michael Bond's Paddington Here and Now and Don't Eat the Neighbours (Jopi Nyman)
13. The Performance of Ethnicity in Bollywood-Style Music Videos by Cornershop and by Ramesh B. Weeratunga (Monika Mueller)
14. Performing Poetry: Langston Hughes, "I, too" and Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool" (Bettina Hofmann)
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