Eng-Beng Lim
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814760895
- eISBN:
- 9780814760567
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814760895.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
This introductory chapter demonstrates that while orientalist dyadic formations are chronic and persistent in twentieth- and twenty-first-century intercultural encounters, queer couplings such as the ...
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This introductory chapter demonstrates that while orientalist dyadic formations are chronic and persistent in twentieth- and twenty-first-century intercultural encounters, queer couplings such as the white man/native boy remain under the critical radar in spite of their prevalence. The book addresses this case, and performs a comparative study of queer coupling on three circum-Pacific performance sites—Bali, Singapore, and the United States—as a primary object of performance history and analysis. This dyad commensurate visibility in critical studies of performance, theater, and culture, whether as a queer episteme or a colonial one—or both—intertwined throughout the encounter. In addition, an understanding of Asian encounters in a colonial-transnational frame lacks central substance by disregarding the account of queer couplings.Less
This introductory chapter demonstrates that while orientalist dyadic formations are chronic and persistent in twentieth- and twenty-first-century intercultural encounters, queer couplings such as the white man/native boy remain under the critical radar in spite of their prevalence. The book addresses this case, and performs a comparative study of queer coupling on three circum-Pacific performance sites—Bali, Singapore, and the United States—as a primary object of performance history and analysis. This dyad commensurate visibility in critical studies of performance, theater, and culture, whether as a queer episteme or a colonial one—or both—intertwined throughout the encounter. In addition, an understanding of Asian encounters in a colonial-transnational frame lacks central substance by disregarding the account of queer couplings.
