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  1. Marginal sights
    staging the Chinese in America
    Author: Moy, James S.
    Published: ©1993
    Publisher:  University of Iowa, Iowa City

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0877454272; 0877454485; 1587291606; 9780877454274; 9780877454489; 9781587291609
    Series: Studies in theatre history and culture
    Subjects: HISTORY / State & Local / General; American literature; American literature / Chinese influences; Chinese Americans in literature; Chinese in literature; Civilization / Chinese influences; Literature; Theater; Américains d'origine chinoise / Dans la littérature; Littérature américaine / Influence chinoise; Littérature américaine / Histoire et critique; Théâtre / États-Unis / Histoire; Geschichte; Literatur; American literature; American literature; Chinese Americans in literature; Theater; Chinese in literature; Chinabild; Drama; Theater; Literatur; Chinesen
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (158 pages)
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    Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158)

    Introduction: Siting Race/Staging Chineseness -- The Panoptic Empire of the Gaze: Authenticity and the Touristic Siting of Chinese America -- Bret Harte and Mark Twain's Ah Sin: Locating China in the Geography of the American West -- Henry Grimm's The Chinese Must Go: Theatricalizing Absence Desired -- Panoptic Containment: The Performance of Anthropology at the Columbian Exposition -- Animating the Chinese: Psychologizing the Details -- Casualties of War: The Death of Asia on the American Field of Representation -- Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions: Desiring Marginality and the Dematerialization of Asia -- Disfiguring The Castle of Fu Manchu: Racism Reinscribed in the Playground of the Postmodern -- Flawed Self-Representations: Authenticating Chinese American Marginality -- Imperial Pornographies of Virtuosity: Problematizing Asian American Life

    Since the beginning of the Western tradition in drama, dominant cultures have theatrically represented marginal or foreign racial groups as "other" & different form "normal" people, not completely human, uncivilized, quaint, exotic, comic. Playwrights and audiences alike have been fascinated with racial difference, and this fascination has depended upon a process of fetishization. By the time Asians appeared in the United States, the framework for their constructed Lotus Blossom and Charlie Chan stereotypes had preceded them