Research Catalog

Title

Performing ethnicity, performing gender : transcultural perspectives / edited by Bettina Hofmann and Monika Mueller.

Publication

• New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hofmann, Bettina, 1964-
• Mueller, Monika, 1960-

Description

viii, 247 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 91

Uniform Title

Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 91.

Subjects

• Ethnicity in literature
• Sex role in the theater
• Performing arts > Political aspects
• Sex role in literature
• Ethnicity in the theater

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Performing ethnicity, performing gender: transcultural perspectives / Monika Mueller and Bettina Hofmann -- Part I. Political agency. Old print media, radical ideas, and vernacular performance in the life and work of Robert Wedderburn and Henry Box Brown / Alan Rice ; Speaking up, speaking out: performing migrant identity in two Italian African memoirs / William Boelhower ; Recovering Queequeq's body: performing alterna(rra)tives in the Borderlands / Astrid M. Fellner ; Limning the limit or Notes toward an outline of activist performance at the Limit / Samir Dayal -- Part II. Diasporic belonging. Performing ethno-cultural identity in Réka Pigniczky's autobiographical documentary Incubator / Mónika Fodor ; Diasporic Bollywood: fusionist practices and gender performativity in Deepa Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood / Pin-Chia Feng ; Asian American family memoirs and the performance of identity and readership in transcultural societies / Rocío G. Davis -- Part III. Performances of ethnicity and gender. Gallo-Gallina: Gender performance and the androgynous imagination in Elena Poniatowska's Hasta no verte Jesús mío / Carmen Serrano ; Performing identity as a challenge to heteronormativity: public and private spaces in R. Raj Rao's The Boyfriend / Wolfgang Holtkamp ; Performing Butterfly: medial constructions of ethnic identity / Angelika Koehler -- Part IV. Cross-ethnic traffic. Asian American literature and literary theory: Onoto Watanna's panethnic impersonation in Miss Numė of Japan / Iping Liang ; Performing immigration, ethnicity, and community in Michael Bond's Paddington Here and Now and Don't Eat the Neighbours / Jopi Nyman ; The performance of ethnicity in Bollywood-style music videos by Cornershop and by Ramesh B. Weeratunga / Monika Mueller ; Performing poetry: Langston Hughes, "I, too" and Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool" / Bettina Hofmann.

Call Number

JFE 16-11596

ISBN

• 9781138682689
• 1138682683

LCCN

• 2016013182
• 40026393524

OCLC

958862514

Title

Performing ethnicity, performing gender : transcultural perspectives / edited by Bettina Hofmann and Monika Mueller.

Publisher

New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 91

Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 91.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hofmann, Bettina, 1964- editor.

Mueller, Monika, 1960- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40026393524

Research Call Number

JFE 16-11596