Title Marginal sights : staging the Chinese in America / James S. Moy

Published Iowa City : University of Iowa, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in theatre history and culture Studies in theatre history and culture. Contents Introduction: Siting Race/Staging Chineseness -- The Panoptic Empire of the Gaze: Authenticity and the Touristic Siting of Chinese America -- Bret Harte and Mark Twain's Ah Sin: Locating China in the Geography of the American West -- Henry Grimm's The Chinese Must Go: Theatricalizing Absence Desired -- Panoptic Containment: The Performance of Anthropology at the Columbian Exposition -- Animating the Chinese: Psychologizing the Details -- Casualties of War: The Death of Asia on the American Field of Representation -- Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions: Desiring Marginality and the Dematerialization of Asia -- Disfiguring The Castle of Fu Manchu: Racism Reinscribed in the Playground of the Postmodern -- Flawed Self-Representations: Authenticating Chinese American Marginality -- Imperial Pornographies of Virtuosity: Problematizing Asian American Life Summary Since the beginning of the Western tradition in drama, dominant cultures have theatrically represented marginal or foreign racial groups as "other" & different form "normal" people, not completely human, uncivilized, quaint, exotic, comic. Playwrights and audiences alike have been fascinated with racial difference, and this fascination has depended upon a process of fetishization. By the time Asians appeared in the United States, the framework for their constructed Lotus Blossom and Charlie Chan stereotypes had preceded them Analysis American literature Chinese influences American literature History and criticism China In literature Chinese Americans in literature Chinese in literature Theater United States History United States Civilization Chinese influences Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject American literature -- Chinese influences American literature -- History and criticism. Chinese Americans in literature. Theater -- United States -- History Chinese in literature. HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. DRAMA -- General. American literature American literature -- Chinese influences Chinese Americans in literature Chinese in literature Civilization -- Chinese influences Literature Theater Chinabild Chinesen Drama Literatur Theater Américains d'origine chinoise -- Dans la littérature. Littérature américaine -- Influence chinoise. Littérature américaine -- Histoire et critique. Théâtre -- États-Unis -- Histoire. Américain d'origine chinoise (peuple) -- culture -- représentation sociale -- stéréotype -- études diverses. Américain d'origine chinoise (peuple) -- littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) -- représentation sociale -- stéréotype -- études diverses. Américain d'origine chinoise (peuple) -- représentation sociale -- stéréotype -- théâtre américain (Etats-Unis) Américain d'origine chinoise (peuple) -- cinéma américain (Etats-Unis) -- représentation sociale -- stéréotype. SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- Chinese influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001460 China -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024204 Subject China United States USA Chine -- Dans la littérature. Chinesen. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 1587291606 9781587291609

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