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About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

Kondo, Dorinne

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesTheater History

ISBN10: 0415911419
ISBN13: 9780415911412
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 17 1997
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.03
Language: English
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.

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