Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance
- ISBN-10
- 1566893402
- ISBN-13
- 9781566893404
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-25
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Author
- Karen Tei Yamashita
Description
Giant foam rubber sushi and cyborg kungfu fighters populate performances that reflect questions of gender, identity, orientalism, and racial politics.
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