Periperformativity and Ethnicity in the Theater of Young Jean Lee

• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: Hyun Joo Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제50집 2호, 257~276쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.09.30

영문 초록

This essay offers a detailed analysis of playwright and director Young Jean Lee’s theatrical production Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, which premiered in 2006 at HERE Arts Center in New York City, in relationship to J. L. Austin’s concept of “performatives” introduced in his 1955 lectures at Harvard University and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s notion of the “periperformative.” This analysis attends to the play’s engagement with self-alienation, a sense of failure, and enacting whiteness in the absence of white persons and reveals that the falling away of certain conventions of ethnicity in the play alludes to the limits of the subject formation without enclosing a specific group within the established perception of epistemic categories. The appearance of ethnicity characterized as infelicitous in the play offers a new way to think, “How do those who feel a distance from dominant culture move around that culture in the contemporary United States?”

키워드

Periperformativity Ethnicity Asian American Theater Infelicity Embodiment