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A Refuge For Jae-In Doe: Fugues In The Key Of English Major, Seo-Young J. Chu
A Refuge For Jae-In Doe: Fugues In The Key Of English Major, Seo-Young J. Chu
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"A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major"
- Author(s):
- Seo-Young Chu (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Subject(s):
- Feminism, Creative nonfiction, Asian American literature, Sonnets, Social justice, Trauma
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- #MeToo, Stanford, women in academia, early american
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/cp82-8f39
Letters To Mei Lanfang, Alexandra Dare Norman
Letters To Mei Lanfang, Alexandra Dare Norman
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
As a male actor of female Dan characters, Mei Lanfang (1894-1961) is known throughout the world as the most representative performer of Chinese opera – particularly for his performance of Concubine Yu in the Peking opera Farewell My Concubine. A feminist analysis of his work in this opera reveals a series of assumptions about the definition of “Woman” in both theatre and life. This project is solo performance piece formatted in a series of open letters to Mei Lanfang, interspersed with personal stories investigating what it truly means to be a Woman – as an actor, a Christian, a feminist, …