In this paper, I examine the various representations of Asian Americans in David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face and track the myriad of social roles that his two main characters, DHH and Marcus, cannot play, want to play, have to play, and/or are invited to play. I address how DHH struggles with his definition of what it means to be Asian American. By juxtaposing DHH and Marcus, the play serves as a prime example of what David Palumbo-Liu describes as “rescripting the imaginary,” or the attempt of Asian American and other writers to “invent within their discursive spaces images of Asian America that both delineate the boundaries of Asian America and envision particular modes of crossing them.” Through this role shif...
Considering writing literature as a cultural practice, the texts about and by the representatives of...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2012Despite their increasing visibility in mainstream popu...
Racial discourse in the United States has arguably been defined by the prevailing racial binary of B...
Hwang’s play Yellow Face (2007), a dramaturgically inventive work, combines multiple narrative forms...
This essay starts from the idea that the correlation between Asian American subjectivity and exempla...
What does it mean to perform an American identity? From the time of his breakout play, FOB, in 1980...
In my thesis, I argue against the grain, asserting that the war over authenticity among first-wave...
Mixed-race subjects have long posed an invisible threat to the stability of racial categories in Ame...
This paper was presented at the William Inge Theatre Festival in April, 2013. The Inge Digital coll...
My dissertation investigates how Chinese American writers invent transnational Chinese American iden...
Article Submission (Accepted with Revisions): Disturbing Stereotypes: Fu Man/Chan and Dragon Lady Bl...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the racist representations of Asians and Asian Americans in ...
textAlthough there have been many studies focusing on Asian Americans’ ethnic identity and the stere...
Concurring with global framings of Asian American cultural productions and their increasing impact o...
Does intersectionality divide marginalized groups (e.g., women) along identity lines (e.g., race, cl...
Considering writing literature as a cultural practice, the texts about and by the representatives of...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2012Despite their increasing visibility in mainstream popu...
Racial discourse in the United States has arguably been defined by the prevailing racial binary of B...
Hwang’s play Yellow Face (2007), a dramaturgically inventive work, combines multiple narrative forms...
This essay starts from the idea that the correlation between Asian American subjectivity and exempla...
What does it mean to perform an American identity? From the time of his breakout play, FOB, in 1980...
In my thesis, I argue against the grain, asserting that the war over authenticity among first-wave...
Mixed-race subjects have long posed an invisible threat to the stability of racial categories in Ame...
This paper was presented at the William Inge Theatre Festival in April, 2013. The Inge Digital coll...
My dissertation investigates how Chinese American writers invent transnational Chinese American iden...
Article Submission (Accepted with Revisions): Disturbing Stereotypes: Fu Man/Chan and Dragon Lady Bl...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the racist representations of Asians and Asian Americans in ...
textAlthough there have been many studies focusing on Asian Americans’ ethnic identity and the stere...
Concurring with global framings of Asian American cultural productions and their increasing impact o...
Does intersectionality divide marginalized groups (e.g., women) along identity lines (e.g., race, cl...
Considering writing literature as a cultural practice, the texts about and by the representatives of...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2012Despite their increasing visibility in mainstream popu...
Racial discourse in the United States has arguably been defined by the prevailing racial binary of B...