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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Moy, James S., 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa, ©1993.
Series:Studies in theatre history and culture.
Subjects:
American literature > Chinese influences.
American literature > History and criticism.
Chinese Americans in literature.
Theater > United States > History.
Chinese in literature.
Littérature américaine > Influence chinoise.
Américains d'origine chinoise dans la littérature.
Théâtre > États-Unis > Histoire.
Chinois dans la littérature.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
DRAMA > General.
American literature
American literature > Chinese influences
Chinese Americans in literature
Chinese in literature
Civilization > Chinese influences
Literature
Theater
Chinabild
Chinesen
Drama
Literatur
Américains d'origine chinoise > Dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique.
Américain d'origine chinoise (peuple) > culture > représentation sociale > stéréotype > études diverses.
Américain d'origine chinoise (peuple) > littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) > représentation sociale > stéréotype > études diverses.
Américain d'origine chinoise (peuple) > représentation sociale > stéréotype > théâtre américain (Etats-Unis)
Américain d'origine chinoise (peuple) > cinéma américain (Etats-Unis) > représentation sociale > stéréotype.
United States > Civilization > Chinese influences.
China > In literature.
China
United States
USA
Chine > Dans la littérature.
Chinesen.
American literature > History and criticism
China > In literature
Theater > United States > History
United States > Civilization > Chinese influences
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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