“A Sick Way of Thinking?”: The Unorthodox Dramaturgy of Young Jean Lee’s Identity Politics Theater

• Main Author: Kong, Io Chun
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: racial contingency; neoliberal multiculturalism; Asian American theater; Young Jean Lee; unorthodox dramaturgy; East Asian Languages and Societies; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies; Theatre and Performance Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss2/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1012/viewcontent/2_Kong_A_20Sick_20Way_20of_20Thinking_Akda_201_282_29.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The article addresses the predicament of what I refer to as “racial contingency” in Asian American theater and how such conception draws critical attention to the naturalizing of neoliberal multiculturalism. Utilizing “racial contingency” as a critical lens to examine the emerging wave of Asian Amer...