| Portion of title |
Mixed-race Asian experience in American drama |
| Abstract |
"Mixed-race Asian American plays are often overlooked for their failure to fit smoothly into static racial categories, rendering mixed-race drama inconsequential in conversations about race and performance. Since the nineteenth century, however, these plays have long advocated for the social significance of multiracial Asian people. Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Experience in American Drama traces the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theater from the late-nineteenth century to the present day and explores the ways that mixed-race Asian identity transforms our understanding of race. Mixed-Asian playwrights harness theater's generative power to enact performances of "double liminality" and expose the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2022041146 |
| ISBN | 9781978835535 paperback |
| ISBN | 1978835531 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781978835542 hardcover |
| ISBN | 197883554X hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
