Table of Contents

1. Staging Minor Feelings and Rehearsing Reparation

Amy B. Huang

2. Staging Exclusion: Immigration and Exploitation in Asian American Theatre

James McMaster

3. Theater of the American Tropics

Lucy MSP Burns

4. Dusty Barracks and Empty Stages: Revisiting the Mass Exclusion and Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II

Ju Yon Kim

5. From "Orientals" to Asian Americans

Eunha Na

6. Instruction Pieces: The Emergence of Asian American Performance Art

Joshua Chambers-Letson

7. Southeast Asian American Theatre: Refugee Memories and Enacting Home

Sean Metzger

8. Yellowface and Asian American Actors

Esther Kim Lee

9. Grief and Terror in Post-9/11 Plays by South Asian and Arab American Playwrights

Dan Bacalzo

10. Staging Asian America in a History of Present Illness

Christine Mok

About the Author

Josephine Lee is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota and the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture. Her other books include Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater, The Japan of Pure Invention: Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, and Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage.