'The Theatre of David Henry Hwang' provides an in-depth study of his Hwang's plays and other works in theatre. Beginning with his 'Trilogy of Chinese America' written in the early 1980s, Esther Kim Lee traces all major phases of his playwriting...
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'The Theatre of David Henry Hwang' provides an in-depth study of his Hwang's plays and other works in theatre. Beginning with his 'Trilogy of Chinese America' written in the early 1980s, Esther Kim Lee traces all major phases of his playwriting career. Utilizing historical and dramaturgical analysis, she argues that Hwang has developed a unique style of meta-theatricality and irony in writing plays that are both politically charged and commercially viable The Trilogy of Chinese America: Magic Realism and the Californian Cool -- Beyond Chinese America: Love, Death and Resurrection -- M. Butterfly -- Identity Politics and Multiculturalism in the 1990s -- The Irony and Rhetoric of the Global Millennium -- Other Critical Perspectives.
