Performing Asian America
Subtitle: race and ethnicity on the contemporary stage
By: Josephine Lee
Series: Asian American history and culture
Publisher: Temple Univ. Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781566395021; 9781566396370
Description: In her groundbreaking book, Performing Asian America, Josephine Lee meets a formidable challenge. How does one go about describing and analyzing the cultural production of Asian Americans, a group just beginning to make their complex political and social positions more visible? Lee approaches her specific subject, how Asian American playwrights depict race and ethnicity onstage, from the perspective that theatrical performances and dramatic texts can tell us much about these contemporary dynamics.