Race and role : the mixed-race Asian experience in American drama / Rena M. Heinrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heinrich, Rena M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian American theater--Social aspects.

Asian American theater.

Multiracial people--United States--Ethnic identity.

Multiracial people.

American drama--Asian American authors--History and criticism.

American drama.

Arts and transnationalism--United States.

Arts and transnationalism.

Multiracial people in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Stages of Denial

2. Tragic Eurasians

3. Shape Shifting Performances in the Twentieth Century

4. Cosmopolitan Identity in Mixed Dramatic Forms

5. Multiraciality in the Post-Racial Era

6. Beyond Monoracial Hierarchies

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-9788-3555-8

1-9788-3557-4

OCLC:

1498717535