Emily Roxworthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1696009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Roxworthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Roxworthy |
| SIGNATURE | ROXWORTHY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II
In The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma, Emily Roxworthy contests the notion that the U.S. government's internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans behaved as if the "theatre of war" had ended and life could return to normal. Roxworthy demonstrates that this theatrical logic …
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies by Rachel C. Lee (review)
Revitalizing Japanese American Internment: Critical Empathy and Role-Play in the Musical Allegiance and the Video Game Drama in the Delta
The incorporation of interactive technology into the memorialization of the World War II incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans enables those with no prior connection to this history to role-play the internment experience. This essay compares the author's digital role-playing game Drama in the Delta with the Broadway-bound musical Allegiance , arguing that the shared impulse to use performance to walk in internees' shoes threatens to eclipse…
Blackface Behind Barbed Wire: Gender and Racial Triangulation in the Japanese American Internment Camps
In a dark footnote to a dark chapter in US history, Japanese Americans interned by their own government during World War II performed in blackface behind barbed wire. Exploring blackface performance in the camps raises questions regarding the potential resistance of racial impersonation and blackface's potential for triangulating race
Nisei girls' kabuki in wartime Arkansas: Cultural segregation and cross-dressing at Rohwer and Jerome
Despite decades of scholarly research and popular accounts produced about the Japanese American internment since the last of 10 concentration camps closed at the end of World War II, two phenomena remain either unknown or relegated to the status of anomalies: two camps called Rohwer and Jerome were located in the Deep South, in the south-eastern corner of Arkansas known as the Delta; and Japanese American (Nisei) girls as young as six repeatedly …
Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance (review)
Reviewed by: Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance Emily Roxworthy (bio) Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance, by Hye Seung Chung. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. Xxii + 232 pp. $22.95 paper. ISBN 1-59213-515-3. Hye Sueng Chung has written the first book examining American film and television’s treatment of Koreans, using the marginalized career of Hollywood actor…
The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II
This book contests the notion that the U.S. government’s internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans behaved as if the “theatre of war” had ended and life could return to normal. This book demonstrates that this theatrical logic of segregating the real from the staged grew out of …
Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi (review)
Reviewed by: Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi Emily Roxworthy Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi. By Jeanne Sakata. Directed by Jessica Kubzansky. East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theater, Los Angeles. 1 December 2007. Although Dawn’s Light seems most noteworthy for introducing audiences to real-life Nisei civilrights activist Gordon Hirabayashi—a man who has been called the Rosa Parks of Japanese America for resis…
Revitalizing Japanese American Internment: Critical Empathy and Role-Play in the Musical Allegiance and the Video Game Drama in the Delta
The incorporation of interactive technology into the memorialization of the World War II incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans enables those with no prior connection to this history to role-play the internment experience. This essay compares the author's digital role-playing game Drama in the Delta with the Broadway-bound musical Allegiance , arguing that the shared impulse to use performance to walk in internees' shoes threatens to eclipse…
The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II
This book contests the notion that the U.S. government’s internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans behaved as if the “theatre of war” had ended and life could return to normal. This book demonstrates that this theatrical logic of segregating the real from the staged grew out of …
Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi (review)
Reviewed by: Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi Emily Roxworthy Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi. By Jeanne Sakata. Directed by Jessica Kubzansky. East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theater, Los Angeles. 1 December 2007. Although Dawn’s Light seems most noteworthy for introducing audiences to real-life Nisei civilrights activist Gordon Hirabayashi—a man who has been called the Rosa Parks of Japanese America for resis…
Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance (review)
Reviewed by: Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance Emily Roxworthy (bio) Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance, by Hye Seung Chung. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. Xxii + 232 pp. $22.95 paper. ISBN 1-59213-515-3. Hye Sueng Chung has written the first book examining American film and television’s treatment of Koreans, using the marginalized career of Hollywood actor…
Nisei girls' kabuki in wartime Arkansas: Cultural segregation and cross-dressing at Rohwer and Jerome
Despite decades of scholarly research and popular accounts produced about the Japanese American internment since the last of 10 concentration camps closed at the end of World War II, two phenomena remain either unknown or relegated to the status of anomalies: two camps called Rohwer and Jerome were located in the Deep South, in the south-eastern corner of Arkansas known as the Delta; and Japanese American (Nisei) girls as young as six repeatedly …
Blackface Behind Barbed Wire: Gender and Racial Triangulation in the Japanese American Internment Camps
In a dark footnote to a dark chapter in US history, Japanese Americans interned by their own government during World War II performed in blackface behind barbed wire. Exploring blackface performance in the camps raises questions regarding the potential resistance of racial impersonation and blackface's potential for triangulating race
Revitalizing Japanese American Internment: Critical Empathy and Role-Play in the Musical Allegiance and the Video Game Drama in the Delta
The incorporation of interactive technology into the memorialization of the World War II incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans enables those with no prior connection to this history to role-play the internment experience. This essay compares the author's digital role-playing game Drama in the Delta with the Broadway-bound musical Allegiance , arguing that the shared impulse to use performance to walk in internees' shoes threatens to eclipse…
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies by Rachel C. Lee (review)
The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II
In The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma, Emily Roxworthy contests the notion that the U.S. government's internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans behaved as if the "theatre of war" had ended and life could return to normal. Roxworthy demonstrates that this theatrical logic …
History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works)