Author: Kashmir Hill

Title: About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 1997-09-17

Details: 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.

EAN: 9780415911412

Package Dimensions: Height: 9.02 Inches, Length: 5.98 Inches, Weight: 1.1684499886 Pounds, Width: 0.67 Inches

Languages: en