: Rena M. Heinrich
: Race and Role The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama
: Rutgers University Press
: 9781978835559
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: CHF 75.40
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: Kunst, Literatur
: English
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"e,double liminality"e, and expose the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding.