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Record Nr.

UNISA996248325903316

Autore

Lee Josephine <1960->

Titolo

Performing Asian America / Josephine Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : Temple University Press, , 1997

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012

©1997

ISBN

1-4399-0670-X

0-585-36410-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Asian American history and culture

Disciplina

812/.5409035073

Soggetti

Race in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Asian Americans in literature

Asian Americans - Intellectual life

American drama - 20th century - History and criticism

American drama - Asian American authors - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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; Photographs; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 a