Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender (eBook, PDF)

Transcultural Perspectives
Redaktion: Hofmann, Bettina; Mueller, Monika

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars who focus on the representation of these crucial categories of identity across various media, including literature, film, documentary, and (music) video performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134825110
• Artikelnr.: 45959470

Autorenporträt

Bettina Hofmann is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany Monika Mueller is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Bochum, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction (Monika Mueller and Bettina Hofmann)
Part 1: Political Agency
1. Old Print Media, Radical Ideas and Vernacular Performance in the Life
and Work of Robert Wedderburn and Henry Box Brown (Alan Rice)
2. Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Performing Migrant Identity in Two Italian
African Memoirs (William Boelhower)
3. Recovering Queequeq's Body: Performing Alterna(rra)tives in the
Borderlands (Astrid Fellner)
4. Limning the Limit or Notes toward an Outline of Activist Performance at
the Limit (Samir Dayal)
Part 2: Diasporic Belonging
5. Performing Ethno-Cultural Identity in Réka Pigniczky's Autobiographical
Documentary Incubator (Mónika Fodor)
6. Diasporic Bollywood: Fusionist Practices and Gender Performativity in
Deepa Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood (Pin-Chia Feng)
7. Asian American Family Memoirs and the Performance of Identity and
Readership in Transcultural Societies (Rocio Davis)
Part 3: Performances of Ethnicity and Gender
8. Gallo-Gallina: Gender Performance and the Androgynous Imagination in
Elena Poniatowska's Hasta no verte Jesús mío (Carmen Serrano)
9. Performing Identity as a Challenge to Heteronormativity: Public and
Private Spaces in R. Raj Rao's The Boyfriend (Wolfgang Holtkamp)
10. Performing Butterfly: Medial Constructions of Ethnic Identity (Angelika
Koehler)
Part 4: Cross-Ethnic Traffic
11. Asian American Literature and Literary Theory: Onoto Watanna's
Panethnic Impersonation in Miss Numé of Japan (Iping Liang)
12. Performing Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community in Michael Bond's
Paddington Here and Now and Don't Eat the Neighbours (Jopi Nyman)
13. The Performance of Ethnicity in Bollywood-Style Music Videos by
Cornershop and by Ramesh B. Weeratunga (Monika Mueller)
14. Performing Poetry: Langston Hughes, "I, too" and Gwendolyn Brooks, "We
Real Cool" (Bettina Hofmann)