About Face : Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

Kondo, Dorinne

Routledge（1997/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415911412
• DDC分類 306

基本説明

From the Paris catwalks to the Broadway stage, from Rising Sun to the US casting controversies over Miss Saigon, this book examines representations of Asia their reverberations in both Asia and Asian American lives.

Full Description

From the runways of Paris to the casting controversies over BMiss Saigon, from a local demonstration at the Claremont Colleges in California to the gender-blending of BM. Butterfly, BAbout Face examines representations of Asia and their reverberations in both Asia and Asian American lives. Japanese high fashion and Asian American theater become points of entry into the politics of pleasure, the performance of racial identities, and the possibility of political intervention in commodity capitalism. Based on Kondo's fieldwork, this interdisciplinary work brings together essays, interviews with designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons and playwright David Henry Hwang, and "personal" vignettes in its exploration of counter-Orientalisms.

Contents

part0 Introduction; Chapter 1 the politics of pleasure; Part 1 Orientalisms; Chapter 2 ::; Chapter 3 orientalizing: fashioning "japan"; Part 2 Consuming Gender, Race, and Nation; Chapter 4 the limits of the avant-garde? gender and race on the runway; Chapter 5 fabricating masculinity: gender, race, and nation in the transnational circuit; Part 3 Strategies of Intervention; Chapter 6 the narrative production of home in asian american theater; Chapter 7 interview with david henry hwang; Chapter 8 art, activism, asia, asian americans;