| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Vignette; Introduction; 1 The Politics of Pleasure; Part One: Orientalisms; 2 M. Butterfly: Gender, Orientalism, and a Critique of Essentialist Identity; 3 Orientalizing: Fashioning Japan; Part Two: Consumimg Gender, Race and Nation; Vignette; 4 The Limits of the Avant-Garde? Gender and Race on the Runway; Vignette; 5 Fabricating Masculinity: Gender, Race, and Nation in the Transnational Circuit; Part Three: Strategies of Intervention; 6 The Narrative Production of Home in Asian American Theater |
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7 Interview with David Henry Hwang8 Art, Activism, Asia, Asian Americans; References cited; Index |
| Summary |
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 wi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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National characteristics, Japanese.
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Fashion -- Japan -- Themes, motives
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Asian American theater -- Social aspects
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Japanese.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Beauty & Grooming.
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Japanese
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Asian American theater -- Social aspects
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Fashion -- Themes, motives
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National characteristics, Japanese
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Popular culture
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media
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Asiaten
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Kulturelle Identität
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Mode
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Orientalismus Kunst
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Theater
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Mode.
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Toneel.
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Etnisch bewustzijn.
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Mode -- Japon -- Thèmes, motifs.
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Stéréotype (psychologie)
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Caractère national japonais.
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Américains d'origine japonaise -- Identité collective.
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Orientalismus.
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Japan
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United States
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Asien
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Japan
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USA
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Asiaten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1136657916 |
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9781136657917 |
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9781322102382 |
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1322102384 |
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9781136657986 |
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1136657983 |
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