{"product_id":"national-abjection-the-asian-american-body-on-stage-paperback","title":"National Abjection: The Asian American Body on Stage - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Shimakawa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Abjection\u003c\/i\u003e explores the vexed relationship between \"Asian Americanness\" and \"Americanness\" through a focus on drama and performance art. Karen Shimakawa argues that the forms of Asian Americanness that appear in U.S. culture are a function of national abjection--a process that demands that Americanness be defined by the exclusion of Asian Americans, who are either cast as symbolic foreigners incapable of integration or Americanization or distorted into an \"honorary\" whiteness. She examines how Asian Americans become culturally visible on and off stage, revealing the ways Asian American theater companies and artists respond to the cultural implications of this abjection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShimakawa looks at the origins of Asian American theater, particularly through the memories of some of its pioneers. Her examination of the emergence of Asian American theater companies illuminates their strategies for countering the stereotypes of Asian Americans and the lack of visibility of Asian American performers within the theater world. She shows how some plays--Wakako Yamauchi's \u003ci\u003e12-1-A\u003c\/i\u003e, Frank Chin's \u003ci\u003eChickencoop Chinaman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Dragon\u003c\/i\u003e--have both directly and indirectly addressed the displacement of Asian Americans. She analyzes works attempting to negate the process of abjection--such as the 1988 Broadway production of \u003ci\u003eM. Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eMiss Saigon\u003c\/i\u003e, a mainstream production that enacted the process of cultural displacement both onstage and off. Finally, Shimakawa considers Asian Americanness in the context of globalization by meditating on the work of Ping Chong, particularly his \u003ci\u003eEast-West Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEloquent and insightful, National Abjection\" skillfully caputres the complicated 'dance' of Asian American cultural and political performance. Karen Shimakawa's reading of racial abjection makes an original and profound commentary on how theater embodies and engenders national fantasies, desires, and realities. This book should be read not only by scholars; in an ideal world, it should be distributed at all productions of \"Miss Saigon.\"\"--Josephine Lee, author of \"Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage \"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Shimakawa is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eOrientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9.4 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 05, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43152448290879,"sku":"9780822328230","price":60.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/L0rkqnrlnb9780822328230_0f43cb1d-651a-4d1a-a137-6575d931eb67.webp?v=1776937424","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/national-abjection-the-asian-american-body-on-stage-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}