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Author Kondo, Dorinne K.

Title About face : performing race in fashion and theater / Dorinne Kondo
Published New York ; London : Routledge, 1997

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 MELB  391.00952 Kon/Afp  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. The Politics of Pleasure -- 2. M. Butterfly: Gender, Orientalism, and a Critique of Essentialist Identity -- 3. Orientalizing: Fashioning Japan -- 4. The Limits of the Avant-Garde? Gender and Race on the Runway -- 5. Fabricating Masculinity: Gender, Race, and Nation in the Transnational Circuit -- 6. The Narrative Production of Home in Asian American Theater -- 7. Interview with David Henry Hwang -- 8. Art, Activism, Asia, Asian Americans
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index
Subject Asian American theater -- Social aspects.
Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Costume -- Japan -- Themes, motives.
Fashion -- Japan -- Themes, motives.
Exoticism in art -- United States.
National characteristics, Japanese.
Popular culture -- United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media -- United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media.
LC no. 96043837
ISBN 0415911400 (cased)
0415911419 (paperback)