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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kong, Jing Fang

Titel

Representation and cultural identity: semiotic analysis of david henry hwang's plays f.o.b.,m. butterfly and yellow face

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Translation from original language as provided by authorDavid Henry Hwang is the first and the only Asian American playwright ever to win Tony Award for Best Play. Literary critics have been focusing on his masterpiece, M. Butterfly, leaving his other good plays unfairly ignored. Moreover, most critical concerns of the play center around the issues of race, ethnicity and gender politics from the perspectives of deconstruction or Orientalism, however, few critics or scholars show concern about the abundant signs employed in his plays, and relate them to the issue of cultural identity. Therefore, this thesis attempts to concentrate on a semiotic study of Hwang's three plays: the first play F.O.B., the Broadway hit M. Butterfly and the latest play Yellow Face from the perspective of Stuart Hall's Cultural Studies, especially the semiotic and discursive approach, with some related statements of Roland Barthes's Mythologies as a supplement. Through the analysis of various signs in the plays to be discussed and how