Negotiating Asian-Americans' Image

The book negotiates, dissects, and reconstructs the image of the Asian-Americans, particularly the Chinese and the Japanese, in the Western consciousness. These races are often viewed in the image of the threatening, enigmatic, backward, and yellow-skinned cunning people. The book dissects not only how these negative stereotypical images are fundamentally based on Western premises, but also it attempts to reveal their untruthfulness and deceptiveness. It tackles and compares some selected plays by two Asian-American playwrights: David Henry Hwang, a Chinese-American dramatist, and Philip Kan Gotanda, a Japanese-American playwright, in the light of certain critical, cultural notions.

Autorentext

Engy Ashour Torky is an assistant professor of English Literature. She is a new emerging Egyptian scholar. Her book Negotiating Asian-Americans' Image is her first contribution to the world of literature. In this critical study, she dissects and compares between both Hwang's plays and Gotanda's in the light of certain critical, cultural notions.