About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

by Dorinne Kondo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415911419
• ISBN13: 9780415911412
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"