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About Face : Performing Race in Fashion and Theater by Dorinne Kondo (1997, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415911419

ISBN-139780415911412

eBay Product ID (ePID)717931

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages

Publication NameAbout Face : Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEthnic Studies / General, Theater / History & Criticism, Fashion & Accessories, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Sociology / General, Popular Culture, Anthropology / General, Social Psychology

Publication Year1997

TypeTextbook

AuthorDorinne Kondo

Subject AreaDesign, Performing Arts, Social Science, Psychology

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN96-043837

IllustratedYes

SynopsisFrom the runways of Paris to the casting controversies over BMiss Saigon, from a local demonstration at the Claremont Colleges in California to the gender-blending of BM. Butterfly, BAbout Face examines representations of Asia and their reverberations in both Asia and Asian American lives. Japanese high fashion and Asian American theater become points of entry into the politics of pleasure, the performance of racial identities, and the possibility of political intervention in commodity capitalism. Based on Kondo's fieldwork, this interdisciplinary work brings together essays, interviews with designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons and playwright David Henry Hwang, and "personal" vignettes in its exploration of counter-Orientalisms., From the catwalks of Paris to the Broadway stage, from Rising Sun to the casting controversies of Miss Saigon, About Face examines representations of Asia and their reverberations in both Asia and Asian American lives., From the runways of Paris to the casting controversies over B Miss Saigon , from a local demonstration at the Claremont Colleges in California to the gender-blending of B M. Butterfly , B About Face examines representations of Asia and their reverberations in both Asia and Asian American lives. Japanese high fashion and Asian American theater become points of entry into the politics of pleasure, the performance of racial identities, and the possibility of political intervention in commodity capitalism. Based on Kondo's fieldwork, this interdisciplinary work brings together essays, interviews with designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons and playwright David Henry Hwang, and "personal" vignettes in its exploration of counter-Orientalisms.

LC Classification NumberE184.O6K65 1997