Race and Role : : The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama / / Rena M. Heinrich.
Mixed-race Asian American plays are often overlooked for their failure to fit smoothly into static racial categories, rendering mixed-race drama inconsequential in conversations about race and performance. Since the nineteenth century, however, these plays have long advocated for the social signific...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (206 p.) :; 3 color and 8 B-W images |
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| Summary: | Mixed-race Asian American plays are often overlooked for their failure to fit smoothly into static racial categories, rendering mixed-race drama inconsequential in conversations about race and performance. Since the nineteenth century, however, these plays have long advocated for the social significance of multiracial Asian people. Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Experience in American Drama traces the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theater from the late-nineteenth century to the present day and explores the ways that mixed-race Asian identity transforms our understanding of race. Mixed-Asian playwrights harness theater's generative power to enact performances of "double liminality" and expose the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding. |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781978835573 9783110791303 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Rena M. Heinrich. |