Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama by Heinrich, Rena M.

Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781978835542)

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Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama by Heinrich, Rena M.

Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama

$150.00
Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama by Heinrich, Rena M.

Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 "double liminality" and expose the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding.

Author: Rena M. Heinrich
ISBN-10: 197883554X
ISBN-13: 9781978835542
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2023
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
By Rena M. Heinrich
By Rena M. Heinrich
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Rena M. Heinrich is an assistant professor of theatre practice at the University of Southern California. She is a contributor to Shape Shifters: Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity and The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century.

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