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Performing Asian America
Author | : Josephine Lee |
Publsiher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1998-03-25 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781566396370 |
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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 "Asian America" 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.
A Race So Different
Author | : Joshua Chambers-Letson |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780814771617 |
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Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson argues that the law influences racial formation by compelling Asian Americans to embody and perform recognizable identities in both popular aesthetic forms (such as theater, opera, or rock music) and in the rituals of everyday life. Tracing the production of Asian American selfhood from the era of Asian Exclusion through the Global War on Terror, A Race So Different explores the legal paradox whereby U.S. law apprehends the Asian American body as simultaneously excluded from and included within the national body politic. Bringing together broadly defined forms of performance, from artistic works such as Madame Butterfly to the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in the Cambodian American deportation cases of the twenty-first century, this book invites conversation about how Asian American performance uses the stage to document, interrogate, and complicate the processes of racialization in U.S. law. Through his impressive use of a rich legal and cultural archive, Chambers-Letson articulates a robust understanding of the construction of social and racial realities in the contemporary United States.
The Racial Mundane
Author | : Ju Yon Kim |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781479844326 |
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"A beautifully written and original discussion of Asian American performance and the politics of the everyday. The Racial Mundane illustrates how Asian Americans, whether historically marginalized or celebrated as model minorities, have come into the public eye, and will surely open up important new dialogues on Asian American culture and racial representation."--Josephine Lee, author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage
Performing Asian America
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Author | : Josephine Ding Lee |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : OCLC:1036782515 |
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Soundtracks of Asian America
Author | : Grace Wang |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2015-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780822376088 |
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In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences of Asians and Asian Americans in Western classical music, U.S. popular music, and Mandopop (Mandarin-language popular music). Her study encompasses the perceptions and motivations of middle-class Chinese and Korean immigrant parents intensely involved in their children's classical music training, and of Asian and Asian American classical musicians whose prominence in their chosen profession is celebrated by some and undermined by others. Wang interviews young Asian American singer-songwriters who use YouTube to contest the limitations of a racialized U.S. media landscape, and she investigates the transnational modes of belonging forged by Asian American pop stars pursuing recording contracts and fame in East Asia. Foregrounding musical spaces where Asian Americans are particularly visible, Wang examines how race matters and operates in the practices and institutions of music making.
Choreographing Asian America
Author | : Yutian Wong |
Publsiher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780819571083 |
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Poised at the intersection of Asian American studies and dance studies, Choreographing Asian America is the first book-length examination of the role of Orientalist discourse in shaping Asian Americanist entanglements with U.S. modern dance history. Moving beyond the acknowledgement that modern dance has its roots in Orientalist appropriation, Yutian Wong considers the effect that invisible Orientalism has on the reception of work by Asian American choreographers and the conceptualization of Asian American performance as a category. Drawing on ethnographic and choreographic research methods, the author follows the work of Club O’ Noodles—a Vietnamese American performance ensemble—to understand how Asian American artists respond to competing narratives of representation, aesthetics, and social activism that often frame the production of Asian American performance.
The Hypersexuality of Race
Author | : Celine Parreñas Shimizu |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2007-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082234033X |
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A study of the Asian woman as sexual icon in visual culture.
National Abjection
Author | : Karen Shimakawa |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2002-12-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0822328232 |
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DIVExplores the ways that playwrights and performers have dealt with the presentation of the Asian American body on stage, given the historical construction of Asian Americanness as abject and unpresentable./div