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Anime Wong
Karen Tei Yamashita
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Description for Anime Wong
Paperback. Giant foam rubber sushi and cyborg kungfu fighters populate performances that reflect questions of gender, identity, orientalism, and racial politics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 100 B&W photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 571.
Anime Wong is a memory book of performances, most of which were produced collaboratively, reflecting questions of gender, identity, Orientalism, and racial politics. Yamashita's theatrical work is fiction interpreted by the body in real time; these kinetic encounters, complete with giant foam-rubber sushi and cyborg kung fu fighters, create a space for humor, interaction, and epiphany. Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of five novels, including I Hotel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and was awarded the California Book Award and the American Book Award.
Anime Wong is a memory book of performances, most of which were produced collaboratively, reflecting questions of gender, identity, Orientalism, and racial politics. Yamashita's theatrical work is fiction interpreted by the body in real time; these kinetic encounters, complete with giant foam-rubber sushi and cyborg kung fu fighters, create a space for humor, interaction, and epiphany. Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of five novels, including I Hotel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and was awarded the California Book Award and the American Book Award.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Coffee House Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
MN, United States
ISBN
9781566893404
SKU
V9781566893404
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, and I Hotel, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and is currently Professor of Literature and Creative Writing and the co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist & Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Reviews for Anime Wong
Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita: "It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny, and entrancing."
Michael Schaub, National Public Radio "Yamashita incorporates satire and the surreal in prose that is playful yet knowing, fierce yet mournful, in a wildly multicultural landscape."
San Francisco Chronicle "Yamashita shatters social constructs of race, gender, and culture and reassembles them into spectacles that dazzle, confound, and ultimately shed new light upon Asian America."
The California Journal of Women Writers "In the firmament of American literature, Karen Tei Yamashita has been one of the brightest lodestars that have guided my reading for over 20 years. Her literary creations have delighted, astounded, and confounded me. I say confounded because Yamashita is never predictable; each new book has been formally different and she perpetually challenges herself and her readers. Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance follows this trajectory and encapsulates my history of reading of Yamashita in one volume. It will become an indispensable part of my library."
Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Bookstore "I was thrilled to pick up Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, the long-awaited anthology of electrifying performance." Your Impossible Voice "The experimentation of the performances is enough to read for, but they are enriched by the subjects at hand."
Portland Book Review No matter what form Yamashita's voice takes
fiction, performance art, theater, stream of (sub)consciousness
it is original, insightful, funny and light years ahead of its time. Cyber time travel? No problem. Ethnic fetishizing? Look out. Techno-orientalism? She's on it. Anime Wong is a perfect companion to Yamashita's groundbreaking Tropic of Orange, I Hotel and Circle K Cycles. This collection reveals, for the first time, the hidden writings of one of this era's most inspiring authors."
Denise Uyehara, Performance Artist
Michael Schaub, National Public Radio "Yamashita incorporates satire and the surreal in prose that is playful yet knowing, fierce yet mournful, in a wildly multicultural landscape."
San Francisco Chronicle "Yamashita shatters social constructs of race, gender, and culture and reassembles them into spectacles that dazzle, confound, and ultimately shed new light upon Asian America."
The California Journal of Women Writers "In the firmament of American literature, Karen Tei Yamashita has been one of the brightest lodestars that have guided my reading for over 20 years. Her literary creations have delighted, astounded, and confounded me. I say confounded because Yamashita is never predictable; each new book has been formally different and she perpetually challenges herself and her readers. Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance follows this trajectory and encapsulates my history of reading of Yamashita in one volume. It will become an indispensable part of my library."
Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Bookstore "I was thrilled to pick up Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, the long-awaited anthology of electrifying performance." Your Impossible Voice "The experimentation of the performances is enough to read for, but they are enriched by the subjects at hand."
Portland Book Review No matter what form Yamashita's voice takes
fiction, performance art, theater, stream of (sub)consciousness
it is original, insightful, funny and light years ahead of its time. Cyber time travel? No problem. Ethnic fetishizing? Look out. Techno-orientalism? She's on it. Anime Wong is a perfect companion to Yamashita's groundbreaking Tropic of Orange, I Hotel and Circle K Cycles. This collection reveals, for the first time, the hidden writings of one of this era's most inspiring authors."
Denise Uyehara, Performance Artist