Performing Asian America - Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage

Tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian-American playwrights. In this title, the author argues that playwrights produce a different conception of "Asian-America" in accordance with their unique set of sensibilities.

List of 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 Photographs

Summary

Tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian-American playwrights. In this title, the author argues that playwrights produce a different conception of "Asian-America" in accordance with their unique set of sensibilities.

Product details

• Authors: Josephine Lee
• Assisted by: Sucheng Chan (Editor), Michael Omi (Editor)
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.1998
• EAN: 9781566396370
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-637-0
• No. of pages: 241
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Series: Asian American History and Culture Series; Asian American History & Cultu; Asian American History & Cultu
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet