发表于2024-08-28
About Face 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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From the runways of Paris to the Broadway stage, from "Rising Sun" to the casting controversies over "Miss Saigon," from high fashion advertising to a local demonstration at the Claremont Colleges in California, this study examines representations of Asia and their reverberations in both Asia and Asian-American lives. Japanese high fashion and Asian American theatre 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 text 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 attempts to subvert the dominant.
About Face 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书