Karen Shimakawa

National Abjection

The Asian American Body on Stage

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Eloquent and insightful, "National Abjection" skillfully caputres the complicated 'dance' of Asian American cultural and political performance. Karen Shimakawa's reading of racial abjection makes an original and profound commentary on how theater embodies and engenders national fantasies, desires, and realities. This book should be read not only by scholars; in an ideal world, it should be distributed at all productions of "Miss Saigon.""--Josephine Lee, author of "Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage "

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780822328230
• ISBN-10: 0822328232
• Artikelnr.: 22395486

Autorenporträt

Karen Shimakawa

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: “It’s not right for a body to know his own origins”
1. “I should be -- American!” Abjection and the Asian (American) Body
2. “The dance that’s happening” Performance, Politics, and Asian American
Theatre Companies
3. “We’come a Chinatowng, Folks!” Resisting Abjection
4. “I’ll be right here . . . right where you left me” Mimetic
Abjection/Abject Mimicry
5. “Whose history is this, anyway?” Changing Geographies in Ping Chong’s
East-West Quartet
Afterword: “Then we’ll have drama”
Notes
References
Index