Asian American Playwrights

Author : Miles Liu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313011222
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian American Playwrights written by Miles Liu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, Asian American drama made its debut with the spotlight firmly on the lives and struggles of Asians in North America, rather than on the cultures and traditions of the Asian homeland. Today, Asian American playwrights continue to challenge the limitations of established theatrical conventions and direct popular attention toward issues and experiences that might otherwise be ignored or marginalized. While Asian American literature came into full bloom in the last 25 years, Asian American drama has yet to receive the kind of critical attention it warrants. This reference book serves as a versatile vehicle for exploring the field of Asian American drama from its recorded conception to its present stage. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for 52 Asian American dramatists of origins from India, Pakistan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, and China. Each entry includes relevant biographical information that contextualizes the works of a playwright, an interpretive description of selected plays that spotlights recurring themes and plots, a summary of the playwright's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works. The entries are written by expert contributors and reflect the ethnic diversity of the Asian American community. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography, which includes anthologies, scholarly studies, and periodicals.

Author : Hortense Gerardo
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781073664306
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Asian American Playwright Collective written by Hortense Gerardo and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asian American Playwright Collective anthology of new plays features eight short works by playwrights based in Boston, Massachusetts. The collection features works by Christina R Chan, Hortense Gerardo, Mariko Kanto, Greg Lam, Michael Lin, Quentin Nguyen-duy, Audrey Pillsbury, and Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro.

Author : Josephine Lee
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1566396379
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Asian America written by Josephine Lee and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when Asian American theater is enjoying a measure of growth and success, Josephine Lee tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian American playwrights. By looking at performances and dramatic texts, Lee argues that playwrights produce a different conception of "Asian America" in accordance with their unique set of sensibilities. For instance, some Asian American playwrights critique the separation of issues of race and ethnicity from those of economics and class, or they see ethnic identity as a voluntary choice of lifestyle rather than an impetus for concerted political action. Others deal with the problem of cultural stereotypes and how to reappropriate their power. Lee is attuned to the complexities and contradictions of such performances, and her trenchant thinking about the criticisms lobbed at Asian American playwrights -- for their choices in form, perpetuation of stereotype, or apparent sexism or homophobia -- leads her to question how the presentation of Asian American identity in the theater parallels problems and possibilities of identity offstage as well. Discussed are better-known plays such as Frank Chin's The Chickencoop Chinaman, David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, and Velina Hasu Houston's Tea, and new works like Jeannie Barroga's Walls and Wakako Yamauchi's 12-1-a.

Author : Esther Kim Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521850517
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Asian American Theatre written by Esther Kim Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.

Author : Chay Yew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559363167
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Version 3. 0 written by Chay Yew and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first two generations of Asian American drama articulated experiences and issues of race and identity. Their legacy left an indelible impression. In this anthology, a new generation of Asian American playwrights explores the myriad ways in which Asians live in America."-Editor Chay Yew This first major anthology of contemporary Asian American drama in almost two decades showcases plays of the new generation: Julia Cho's Durango, Sunil Kuruvilla's Rice Boy, Han Ong's Swoony Planet, Sung Rno's Wave, Diana Son's Boy, Alice Tuan's Last of the Suns, and Chay Yew's Question 27, Question 28. This is work that readily combines the Medea myth with wave-particle physics; it nimbly moves between a field in Kitchener, Canada, and a treetop in Kerala, India. It explores complexities of gender, sexuality, and family as it demonstrates the cultural and aesthetic diversity of Asian American voices writing for today's American theater. Also included in this volume is The Square, a choral piece by sixteen leading playwrights meditating on 120 years of perceptions and relationships between non-Asian Americans and the Asian American community, set in a public square in the Chinatown of an American city.

Author : Esther Kim Lee
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822352745
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas written by Esther Kim Lee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing the plays together in this collection, Esther Kim Lee highlights the themes and styles that have enlivened Korean diasporic theater in the Americas since the 1990s. Some of the plays are set in urban Koreatowns. One takes place in the middle of Texas, while another unfolds entirely in a character's mind. Ethnic identity is not as central as it was in the work of previous generations of Asian diasporic playwrights.

Author : Josephine Lee
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 143990670X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Asian America written by Josephine Lee and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her groundbreaking book, Performing Asian America, Josephine Lee meets a formidable challenge. How does one go about describing and analyzing the cultural production of Asian Americans, a group just beginning to make their complex political and social positions more visible? Lee approaches her specific subject, how Asian American playwrights depict race and ethnicity onstage, from the perspective that theatrical performances and dramatic texts can tell us much about these contemporary dynamics.

Author : Michelle M. Aguillon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Asian American Playwright Collective written by Michelle M. Aguillon and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yuko Kurahashi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136529802
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian American Culture on Stage written by Yuko Kurahashi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the 30-year history of the East West Players (EWP), tracing the company's representation of Asian Americans through the complex social and cultural changes of the past three decades.

Author : Qui Nguyen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780573706479
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietgone written by Qui Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript, dated 10.18.16. This unmarked typescript was like that used for the Manhattan Theatre Club's stage production at City Center Stage I, 131 West 55th Street, New York, N.Y. The mostly comic play about Vietnamese refugees in America in 1975 opened Oct. 25, 2016, and was directed by May Adrales. The refugees speak English like Americans, and Americans speak it like refugees.