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Performing Asian/American Women

Labor, Resistance, and (De)Compression in The King and I and KPOP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2023

Hye Won Kim
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Abstract

The transnational circulation of persistent racial types that are attached to Asian/American women have shaped Asian-focused narratives and roles on Broadway. The King and I (2015) and KPOP (2022) exemplify Asian/American women’s performative labor and the tensions embedded in and disruptive of the contested political arena of Broadway musical theatre.

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TDR , Volume 67 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 151 - 172
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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Kim, Suk-Young. 2020. “Black K-Pop: Racial Surplus and Global Consumption.” TDR 64, 2 (T246):88–100. doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00921 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kim, Suk-Young. 2020. “Disastrously Creative: K-pop, Virtual Nation, and the Rebirth of Culture Technology.” TDR 64, 1 (T245):22–35. doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00894 CrossRefGoogle Scholar