About face : performing race in fashion and theater / by Dorinne Kondo

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.

The politics of pleasure -- M. Butterfly: gender, orientalism, and a critique of essentialist identity -- Orientalizing: fashioning Japan -- The limits of the avant-garde?: gender and race on the runway -- Fabricating masculinity: gender, race, and nation in the transnational circuit -- The narrative production of home in Asian American Theater -- Interview with David Henry Hwang -- Art, activism, Asia, Asian Americans.