Karen Shimakawa’s scientific contributions

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Publications (1)


National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage
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January 2002

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Karen Shimakawa

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... In this context, I follow David Palumbo-Liu (1999) and Kang (2020) and insert the slash between Asian and American to demonstrate the choice the Asian/American women performer must make between the terms that mark the tension in the linkage of being Asian and American women on Broadway. The split in Asian/American women also exemplifies what such scholars as Rey Chow (1998), Kandice Chuh (2003, Ju Yon Kim (2015), Lisa Lowe (1996), and Karen Shimakawa (2002) have argued as an epistemic violence: Asian Americans, both presented as constituent elements of US identity and marginalized as the racial other, have been foundational to the formation of US Americanness. Subsequently, as Celine Parreñas Shimizu (2007) further intervenes with the slash, I too use it to capture the conflation of being Asian and Asian American for women performers on Broadway. ...

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Performing Asian/American Women: Labor, Resistance, and (De)Compression in The King and I and KPOP
National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage
  • Citing Book
  • January 2002