Asian/American Performance and Aesthetics

This course examines performances in and of the Asias, paying special attention to gendered and racialized constructions of Asias and Asians in the popular imagination. Working at the intersections of Asian/American Studies and Performance Studies, this course considers the ways in which Asianness emerges from performance along the multiple axes of race, gender, sexuality and class. In analyzing a broad spectrum of aesthetic practices, including theatre, film, music and performance art, we will explore what Asianness means within the gendered and racialized circuitry of global exchanges of commodities, labors, bodies, affects, and discourses.