Performing Asian America : race and ethnicity on the contemporary stage /

In her groundbreaking book, Performing Asian America, Josephine Lee meets a formidable challenge. How does one go about describing and analyzing the cultural production of Asian Americans, a group just beginning to make their complex political and social positions more visible? Lee approaches her sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lee, Josephine, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©1997.
Series:Asian American history and culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Ethnicity in literature.
Race in literature.
Théâtre américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
DRAMA > American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
American drama
Ethnicity in literature
Race in literature
Drama
USA
Asiaten.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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