Discourses of Asian American masculinity: emasculation and remasculinization in Flower Drum Song and The Chickencoop Chinaman.

• Main Author: Nurul Hayati Abdul Rahman.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50138
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Through Rodgers and Hammerstein’s film adaptation and David Henry Hwang’s new play versions of Flower Drum Song and Frank Chin’s play The Chickencoop Chinaman, this paper will analyze the ways in which Asian American men have been emasculated through popular culture and the performance industry in t...