{"title":"Performing Asian/American Women","authors":"H. Kim","doi":"10.1017/S1054204323000308","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The transnational circulation of persistent racial types that are attached to Asian/American women have shaped Asian-focused narratives and roles on Broadway. The King and I (2015) and KPOP (2022) exemplify Asian/American women’s performative labor and the tensions embedded in and disruptive of the contested political arena of Broadway musical theatre.","PeriodicalId":46402,"journal":{"name":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"151 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204323000308","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"THEATER","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The transnational circulation of persistent racial types that are attached to Asian/American women have shaped Asian-focused narratives and roles on Broadway. The King and I (2015) and KPOP (2022) exemplify Asian/American women’s performative labor and the tensions embedded in and disruptive of the contested political arena of Broadway musical theatre.
期刊介绍:
TDR traces the broad spectrum of performances, studying performances in their aesthetic, social, economic, and political contexts. With an emphasis on experimental, avant-garde, intercultural, and interdisciplinary performance, TDR covers performance art, theatre, dance, music, visual art, popular entertainments, media, sports, rituals, and the performance in and of politics and everyday life. Each fully illustrated issue includes: -Articles on theatre, dance, popular entertainments, rituals, politics, and social life: the whole broad spectrum of performance -Original contributions to performance theory -Editorial comments, critical analysis, and book reviews -Articles by social scientists, cultural commentators, theorists, artists, scholars, and critics -Interviews with performers, choreographers, directors, composers, and performance artists -Texts of performance works -Translations of important new and decisive archival writings on performance