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Marginal sights : staging the Chinese in America /

Since the beginning of the Western tradition in drama, dominant cultures have theatrically represented marginal or foreign racial groups as "other" & different form "normal" people, not completely human, uncivilized, quaint, exotic, comic. Playwrights and audiences alike have...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moy, James S., 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa, ©1993.
Colección:Studies in theatre history and culture.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Siting Race/Staging Chineseness
  • The Panoptic Empire of the Gaze: Authenticity and the Touristic Siting of Chinese America
  • Bret Harte and Mark Twain's Ah Sin: Locating China in the Geography of the American West
  • Henry Grimm's The Chinese Must Go: Theatricalizing Absence Desired
  • Panoptic Containment: The Performance of Anthropology at the Columbian Exposition
  • Animating the Chinese: Psychologizing the Details
  • Casualties of War: The Death of Asia on the American Field of Representation
  • Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions: Desiring Marginality and the Dematerialization of Asia
  • Disfiguring The Castle of Fu Manchu: Racism Reinscribed in the Playground of the Postmodern
  • Flawed Self-Representations: Authenticating Chinese American Marginality
  • Imperial Pornographies of Virtuosity: Problematizing Asian American Life.