Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias

Name: Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias
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ISBN: 9780814759400

ISBN-10: 0814759408

ISBN-13: 9780814759400

Edition: 2013

Authors: Eng-beng Lim

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A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, Brown Boys and Rice Queens focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy. Eng-Beng Lim unpacks this as the central trope for understanding colonial and cultural encounters in 20th and 21st century Asia and its diaspora. Using the native boy as a critical guide, Lim formulates alternative readings of a traditional Balinese ritual, postcolonial Anglophone theatre in Singapore, and performance art in Asian America. Tracing the transnational formation of the native boy as racial fetish object across the last century, Lim follows this figure as he is passed from the hands of the colonial…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English