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Performativity of Abject Identity: Jonathon Hsu’s Coming Out Asian American

Hsu, Jonathon I.
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In my one-person performance Coming Out Asian American, the racialized body is placed in deracinated space and time where identity is fluidly navigated as history moves and is exchanged. I contend that Asian American identity is ambiguous, schizophrenic, and complex, and the medium of staged performance allows for the exploration of the affective body as a site for cultural/historical memory, exchange, and re-imagination. In the play, Coming Out Asian American, theater and performance are used to create a counter-monument that challenges the dominant Western mainstream discourse. At the same time, I utilize performance to find agency and liberation in the telling of my transnational, and polycultural story on liminal abjection to add to the greater Asian American communal narrative.
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2015-04-01
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Tanglao-Aguas, Francis
Lerman, Mark
Weiss, Lynn
Ferrao, Rodney B.
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Global Studies
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