Paradigms of Asian/American Performance
This class investigates the intersection of performance studies and Asian American studies to think through some of the questions that have animated these fields; we will ultimately be interested in specifying the sorts of inquiries enabled by their conjunction. Our introduction through this critical terrain will move through a variety of literary selections in different genres as well as through a number of other cultural productions—festivals, dance, law, museums, solo performance, video, etc.—extending from the late nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries and from the local to the global.
Reading is likely to include work by Bakhtin, Brecht, Kondo, Lowe, Phelan, Shimakawa, Taylor, etc.
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