Race and Role - Rena M. Heinrich

Race and Role

The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama
Buch | Softcover
206 Seiten
2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3553-5 (ISBN)
32,40 inkl. MwSt
Traces the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theatre from the late-nineteenth century to the present day and explores the ways that mixed-race Asian identity transforms our understanding of race.
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.

RENA M. HEINRICH is an assistant professor of theatre practice at the University of Southern California. She is a contributor to Shape Shifters: Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity and The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century.

Chapter 1: Stages of Denial

Chapter 2: Tragic Eurasians: Mixed-Asian Dramas in the Late-Nineteenth Century    

Chapter 3: Shape Shifting Performances in the Twentieth Century               

Chapter 4: Cosmopolitan Identity in Mixed Dramatic Forms

Chapter 5: Multiraciality in the Post-racial Era                                                                                         

Chapter 6: Beyond Monoracial Hierarchies: Recovering Lost Selves                                                   

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index  

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 3 color and 8 B-W images
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 45 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-9788-3553-1 / 1978835531
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-3553-5 / 9781978835535
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