The Racial Mundane : Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday / / Ju Yon Kim

• Autore: Kim Ju Yon
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : New York University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (481 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.895073
• Soggetto topico: Human behavior - Social aspects - United States; Human body - Social aspects - United States; Habit - Social aspects - United States; Social interaction - United States; Performance - Social aspects - United States; Asian Americans - Cultural assimilation - United States; Asian Americans - History; Asian Americans - Social conditions; Asian Americans - Societies, etc; Ethnic neighborhoods - United States - History; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Minority Studies; Asian Americans - Social life and customs; Human behavior - Social aspects; Human body - Social aspects; Performance - Social aspects ǂ2 fast; Social interaction
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ambiguous habits and the paradox of Asian American racial formation -- Trying on the yellow jacket at the limits of our town : the routines of race and nation -- Everyday rituals and the performance of community -- Making change : interracial conflict, cross-racial performance -- Homework becomes you : the model minority and its doubles -- Afterword: The everyday Asian American online.
• Sommario/riassunto: Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association Across the twentieth century, national controversies involving Asian Americans have drawn attention to such seemingly unremarkable activities as eating rice, greeting customers, and studying for exams. While public debates about Asian Americans have invoked "idian practices to support inconsistent claims about racial difference, diverse aesthetic projects have tested these claims by experimenting with the relationships among habit, body, and identity. In The Racial Mundane, Ju Yon Kim argues that the ambiguous relationship between behavioral tendencies and the body has sustained paradoxical characterizations of Asian Americans as ideal and impossible Americans. The body’s uncertain attachment to its routine motions promises alternately to materialize racial distinctions and to dissolve them. Kim’s study focuses on works of theater, fiction, and film that explore the interface between racialized bodies and everyday enactments to reveal new and latent affiliations. The various modes of performance developed in these works not only encourage audiences to see habitual behaviors differently, but also reveal the stakes of noticing such behaviors at all. Integrating studies of race, performance, and the everyday, The Racial Mundane invites readers to reflect on how and to what effect perfunctory behaviors become objects of public scrutiny.
• Altri titoli varianti: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday
• Titolo autorizzato: The Racial Mundane
• ISBN: 9781479837519; 1-4798-3751-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797048503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II