Asian American Theatre and Performance in Transnational Contexts

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From the founding of the East West Players in San Francisco in 1965 to Toronto’s now thriving Fu-Gen Theatre, formed in 2002, embodied performance has long played a central role in the formation of an Asian diasporic identity, movement, and politics in the Americas. This intro-level course explores the history and development of Asian American theatre and performance. Through a variety of critical, historical, and aesthetic texts (theatre, literature, contemporary art) we will consider encounters and exchanges in Asian American and Asian Canadian theatre and performance histories as one way to critically engage the “transnational” within Asian American Studies.