Shimakawa National Abjection

The Asian American Body Onstage
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8424-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Explores the ways that playwrights and performers have dealt with the presentation of the Asian American body on stage, given the historical construction of Asian Americanness as abject and unpresentable.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shimakawa, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Shimakawa is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. She is coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, published by Duke University Press.