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

By: Series: Studies in theatre history and culturePublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa, c1993.Description: 158 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0877454272 (cloth : acidfree paper)
  • 9780877454274 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0877454485
  • 9780877454489
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Marginal sights.DDC classification:
  • 973/.04951 20
LOC classification:
  • PS159.C5 M69 1993
Also issued online.
Contents:
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 anthopology 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 the marginality and the dematerialization of Asia -- Racism reinscribed in the playground of the postmodern -- Flawed self-representations: authenticating Chinese American marginality -- Imperial pornographies of virtuosity: problematizing Asian American life.
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Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks PS159.C5 M69 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available TBC00009415

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-158).

Also issued online.

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 anthopology 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 the marginality and the dematerialization of Asia -- Racism reinscribed in the playground of the postmodern -- Flawed self-representations: authenticating Chinese American marginality -- Imperial pornographies of virtuosity: problematizing Asian American life.

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