Marginal sights staging the Chinese in America
Since the beginning of the Western tradition in drama, dominant cultures have theatrically represented marginal or foreign racial groups as "other" & different form "normal" people, not completely human, uncivilized, quaint, exotic, comic. Playwrights and audiences alike have...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa
1993.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in theatre history and culture. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32098686*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Siting Race/Staging Chineseness
- The Panoptic Empire of the Gaze: Authenticity and the Touristic Siting of Chinese America
- Bret Harte and Mark Twain's Ah Sin: Locating China in the Geography of the American West
- Henry Grimm's The Chinese Must Go: Theatricalizing Absence Desired
- Panoptic Containment: The Performance of Anthropology at the Columbian Exposition
- Animating the Chinese: Psychologizing the Details
- Casualties of War: The Death of Asia on the American Field of Representation
- Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions: Desiring Marginality and the Dematerialization of Asia
- Disfiguring The Castle of Fu Manchu: Racism Reinscribed in the Playground of the Postmodern
- Flawed Self-Representations: Authenticating Chinese American Marginality
- Imperial Pornographies of Virtuosity: Problematizing Asian American Life.
