{"product_id":"about-face-performing-race-in-fashion-and-theater-9780415911412","title":"About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dorinne Kondo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Minority Studies - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the runways of Paris to the casting controversies over B\u003cem\u003eMiss Saigon\u003c\/em\u003e, from a local demonstration at the Claremont Colleges in California to the gender-blending of B\u003cem\u003eM. Butterfly\u003c\/em\u003e, B\u003cem\u003eAbout Face\u003c\/em\u003e examines representations of Asia and their reverberations in both Asia and Asian American lives. Japanese high fashion and Asian American theater become points of entry into the politics of pleasure, the performance of racial identities, and the possibility of political intervention in commodity capitalism. Based on Kondo's fieldwork, this interdisciplinary work brings together essays, interviews with designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons and playwright David Henry Hwang, and \"personal\" vignettes in its exploration of counter-Orientalisms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46897428267159,"sku":"9780415911412","price":6808.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415911412.webp?v=1770362698","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/about-face-performing-race-in-fashion-and-theater-9780415911412","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}