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Author Lim, Eng-Beng, 1973- author.

Title Brown boys and rice queens : spellbinding performance in the Asias / Eng-Beng Lim
Published New York : New York University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 233 pages) : illustrations
Series Sexual cultures
Sexual cultures.
Contents Preface : The Queer Genesis of a Project -- Introduction : Tropic Spells, Performance, and the Native Boy -- A Colonial Dyad in Balinese Performance -- The Global Asian Queer Boys of Singapore -- G.A.P. Drama, or The Gay Asian Princess Goes to the United States -- Conclusion : Toward a Minor-Native Epistemology in Transcolonial Borderzones
Summary A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, this book focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy. The author unpacks this as the central trope for understanding colonial and cultural encounters in 20th- and 21st-century Asia and its diaspora. Using the native boy as a critical guide, the author formulates alternative readings of a traditional Balinese ritual, postcolonial Anglophone theatre in Singapore, and performance art in Asian America. Tracing the transnational formation of the native boy as racial fetish object across the last century, the author follows this figure as he is passed from the hands of the colonial empire to the postcolonial nation-state to neoliberal globalization. Read through such figurations, the traffic in native boys among white men serves as an allegory of an infantilized and emasculated Asia, subordinate before colonial whiteness and modernity. Pushing further, this book addresses the critical paradox of this entrenched relationship that resides even within queer theory itself by formulating critical interventions around "Asian performance."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Queer theory -- Asia -- Case studies
Sex role -- Asia -- Case studies
Orientalism -- Case studies
Postcolonialism -- Asia -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Orientalism
Postcolonialism
Queer theory
Race relations
Sex role
Homosexualität Motiv
Performance Künste
Kolonialismus
Diener Motiv
Boys and men -- Asia.
SUBJECT Asia -- Race relations -- Case studies
Subject Asia
Asien
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0814760562
9780814760567