About Face

Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Sociology
Cover of the book About Face by Dorinne Kondo, Taylor and Francis
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Author: Dorinne Kondo ISBN: 9781136657986
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: September 3, 2014
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Dorinne Kondo
ISBN: 9781136657986
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: September 3, 2014
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

From 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.

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From 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.

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