Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Since the beginning of the Western tradition in drama, dominant cultures have theatrically represented marginal or foreign racial groups as other-different form ""normal"" people, not completely human, uncivilized, quaint, exotic, comic. Playwrights and audiences alike have been fascinated with racial difference, and this fascination has depended upon a process of fetishization. By the time Asians appeared in the United States, the framework for their constructed Lotus Blossom and Charlie Chan stereotypes had preceded them. InMarginal Sights, James Moy dismantles these stereot

American literature -- Chinese influences. --- American literature -- History and criticism. --- China -- In literature. --- Chinese Americans in literature. --- Chinese in literature. --- Theater -- United States -- History. --- United States -- Civilization -- Chinese influences.