Karen Shimakawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 279309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Shimakawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Shimakawa |
| SIGNATURE | SHIMAKAWA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Anniversaries
Capaciousness, Access, and Pedagogy: A Conversation with Karen Shimakawa
Capaciousness, Access, and Pedagogy: A Conversation with Karen Shimakawa Karen Shimakawa (bio) and Carla Neuss (bio) This interview was conducted in June 2023 at Yale University through the support and generosity of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, UCLA, and ATHE; it has been edited for clarity and length. Carla Neuss (CN): Thank you again for coming and considering these questions. You've had a long interaction with Theatre Journal over your …
Staging a Moving Map in Byron Au Yong’s and Aaron Jafferis’s Stuck Elevator
In The New Nature of Maps, critical geographer J. B. Harley argued that “Far from holding up a simple mirror of nature that is true or false, maps redescribe the world—like any other document—in terms of relations of power and of cultural practices, preferences, and priorities” (35). Harley’s point is that we must read and historicize maps actively and self-reflexively and that if we do so we can discern not only how space was being imagined in a…
Young Jean Lee's Ugly Feelings About Race And Gender: Stuplime animation in Songs of the dragons flying to heaven
Playwright Young Jean Lee, like many Asian-American playwrights of her generation, chafe at the thought of writing an 'identity' play—something that will genuinely or accurately reveal some truth of Asian-American gendered experience. Her response to the call of identity, in Songs of the dragons flying to heaven: A play about white people in love draws upon the exhaustion and anxieties that characterizes recent postfeminism and post-race discours…
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora
Contents: Investments and interventions (Un)Disciplined subjects: (de)colonizing the academy? Dorinne Kondo University of Southern California (Re)Viewing an asian American diaspora: multiculturalism, interculturalism, and the northwest Asian American theatre Karen Shimakawa University of California, Davis Creating performative communities: Through text, time, and space Russell Leong Cross-discipline trafficking: what's justice got to do with it? …
Asians in America: Millennial Approaches to Asian Pacific American Performance
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 3, Number 3, October 2000
Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures
Book Review| September 01 2000 Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures By Sheng-mei Ma. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 1998. ix, 188 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $19.95. Karen Shimakawa Karen Shimakawa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 657–658. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-3-657 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Ghost Families in Sung Rno's Cleveland Raining
Mari Kim, the soon-to-be ex-medical student in Sung Rno's surrealist play Cleveland Raining, reads from her medical textbook about empty spaces or, more precisely, emptied spaces--what remains (if anything) after someone has abandoned the space once occupied. Reading this passage in her textbook sparks a memory of Mari's dream the previous night: driving through the Midwestern countryside, she suddenly finds herself near the ocean and feeling "li…
(Un)Doing the Missionary Position: Gender Asymmetry in Contemporary Asian American Women's Writing . Phillipa Kafka About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater . Dorinne Kondo
Swallowing the Tempest: Asian American Women on Stage
When Yo Yoshida, a 25 year old Japanese American woman in Wakako Yamauchi's play 12-1-A, laments her fate as a single woman interned during World War Two and consigned to the bachelor women['s] barracks, fellow internee Michio (Mitch) Tanaka chides, That's what you get for being a woman.' Yo's response points out the multiple forces which shape and delimit her existence, not only within the literal confines of the military relocation camp, but in…
Who's to Say?" or, Making Space for Gender and Ethnicity in "M. Butterfly
Young Jean Lee's Ugly Feelings About Race And Gender: Stuplime animation in Songs of the dragons flying to heaven
Playwright Young Jean Lee, like many Asian-American playwrights of her generation, chafe at the thought of writing an 'identity' play—something that will genuinely or accurately reveal some truth of Asian-American gendered experience. Her response to the call of identity, in Songs of the dragons flying to heaven: A play about white people in love draws upon the exhaustion and anxieties that characterizes recent postfeminism and post-race discours…
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
Asians in America: Millennial Approaches to Asian Pacific American Performance
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 3, Number 3, October 2000
Ghost Families in Sung Rno's Cleveland Raining
Mari Kim, the soon-to-be ex-medical student in Sung Rno's surrealist play Cleveland Raining, reads from her medical textbook about empty spaces or, more precisely, emptied spaces--what remains (if anything) after someone has abandoned the space once occupied. Reading this passage in her textbook sparks a memory of Mari's dream the previous night: driving through the Midwestern countryside, she suddenly finds herself near the ocean and feeling "li…
Who's to Say?" or, Making Space for Gender and Ethnicity in "M. Butterfly
Who's to Say?" or, Making Space for Gender and Ethnicity in "M. Butterfly
Swallowing the Tempest: Asian American Women on Stage
When Yo Yoshida, a 25 year old Japanese American woman in Wakako Yamauchi's play 12-1-A, laments her fate as a single woman interned during World War Two and consigned to the bachelor women['s] barracks, fellow internee Michio (Mitch) Tanaka chides, That's what you get for being a woman.' Yo's response points out the multiple forces which shape and delimit her existence, not only within the literal confines of the military relocation camp, but in…
(Un)Doing the Missionary Position: Gender Asymmetry in Contemporary Asian American Women's Writing . Phillipa Kafka About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater . Dorinne Kondo
Asians in America: Millennial Approaches to Asian Pacific American Performance
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 3, Number 3, October 2000
Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures
Book Review| September 01 2000 Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures By Sheng-mei Ma. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 1998. ix, 188 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $19.95. Karen Shimakawa Karen Shimakawa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 657–658. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-3-657 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Ghost Families in Sung Rno's Cleveland Raining
Mari Kim, the soon-to-be ex-medical student in Sung Rno's surrealist play Cleveland Raining, reads from her medical textbook about empty spaces or, more precisely, emptied spaces--what remains (if anything) after someone has abandoned the space once occupied. Reading this passage in her textbook sparks a memory of Mari's dream the previous night: driving through the Midwestern countryside, she suddenly finds herself near the ocean and feeling "li…
Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora
Contents: Investments and interventions (Un)Disciplined subjects: (de)colonizing the academy? Dorinne Kondo University of Southern California (Re)Viewing an asian American diaspora: multiculturalism, interculturalism, and the northwest Asian American theatre Karen Shimakawa University of California, Davis Creating performative communities: Through text, time, and space Russell Leong Cross-discipline trafficking: what's justice got to do with it? …
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
Young Jean Lee's Ugly Feelings About Race And Gender: Stuplime animation in Songs of the dragons flying to heaven
Playwright Young Jean Lee, like many Asian-American playwrights of her generation, chafe at the thought of writing an 'identity' play—something that will genuinely or accurately reveal some truth of Asian-American gendered experience. Her response to the call of identity, in Songs of the dragons flying to heaven: A play about white people in love draws upon the exhaustion and anxieties that characterizes recent postfeminism and post-race discours…
Staging a Moving Map in Byron Au Yong’s and Aaron Jafferis’s Stuck Elevator
In The New Nature of Maps, critical geographer J. B. Harley argued that “Far from holding up a simple mirror of nature that is true or false, maps redescribe the world—like any other document—in terms of relations of power and of cultural practices, preferences, and priorities” (35). Harley’s point is that we must read and historicize maps actively and self-reflexively and that if we do so we can discern not only how space was being imagined in a…
Capaciousness, Access, and Pedagogy: A Conversation with Karen Shimakawa
Capaciousness, Access, and Pedagogy: A Conversation with Karen Shimakawa Karen Shimakawa (bio) and Carla Neuss (bio) This interview was conducted in June 2023 at Yale University through the support and generosity of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, UCLA, and ATHE; it has been edited for clarity and length. Carla Neuss (CN): Thank you again for coming and considering these questions. You've had a long interaction with Theatre Journal over your …
On Anniversaries
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (6 works) · History (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)