About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

by Dorinne Kondo
About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

by Dorinne Kondo

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781136657986
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/03/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Dorinne Kondo is an anthropologist and feminist scholar at Pomona College, and the author of Crafting Ourselves:Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a JapaneseWorkplace. She was a dramaturge on the world premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's play Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and was represented as a character in Twilight at the New York Shakespeare festivala and at the Cort Theater on Broadway. She is also an aspiring playwright.

Table of 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;
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