Esther Kim Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3981335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Kim Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
LeAnn Fields and University of Michigan Press
In 1987, LeAnn Fields acquired Lynda Hart‘s Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women’s Theatre. By the time Fields retired in 2024, she had built a list of more than 280 books in the field of theatre and performance studies at the University of Michigan Press. Hart’s Making a Spectacle is a foundational and still radical book of critical essays on gender, the body, and spectatorship, topics that continue to chart and reverberate …
A conversation about new directions in studies of modernity and theatre
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
Reviewed by: M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang Esther Kim Lee M. BUTTERFLY. By David Henry Hwang. Directed by Julie Taymor. Cort Theatre, New York City. November 4, 2017. David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly is one of the most famous plays of the theatre canon. It has been included in anthologies, syllabi, and discussions of race, Orientalism, sexuality, gender, and performance. Its New York premiere in March 1988 was an instant hit and ran for 777 p…
The Theatre of David Henry Hwang
Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas
Showcasing the dynamism of contemporary Korean diasporic theater, this anthology features seven plays by second-generation Korean diasporic writers from the United States, Canada, and Chile. By bringing the plays together in this collection, Esther Kim Lee highlights the themes and styles that have enlivened Korean diasporic theater in the Americas since the 1990s. Some of the plays are set in urban Koreatowns. One takes place in the middle of Te…
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies Esther Kim Lee Chair: Esther Kim Lee Committee Members: Jasbir Puar, Cynthia Wu Winner: Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet, by Lisa Nakamura The selection committee found all nominated books excellent and representative of the rich fields of cultural studies and Asian American studies. For the committee, Lisa Nakamura’s Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet stood out as the book that best demonstrates the…
Transnational Legitimization of an Actor
He is the voice of the father in the Disney animation film Mulan (1998). He is Sensei in the Hollywood hit film Beverly Hills Ninja (1997). He is Lieutenant Hip in the 007 film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). These examples may trigger memories of Soon-Tek Oh in the minds of many Americans. Some would vaguely remember him as the “oriental” actor whose face often gets confused with those of other Asian and Asian American actors, such as Mako a…
National Abjection
Reviewed by: National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage Esther Kim Lee National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage. By Karen Shimakawa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002; pp. xi + 192. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. National Abjection by Karen Shimakawa is the latest addition to the small but growing field of scholarship in Asian American theatre and performance. The book provides critical analysis of a number of Asian American "p…
Between the Personal and the Universal
This article surveys the history of Asian American solo performance from the 1970s to the 1990s by examining the approaches, goals, and styles of five representative artists: Winston Tong, Lane Nishikawa, Jude Narita, Dan Kwong, and Denise Uyehara. Using a broadly chronological trajectory, the article explores major modes of theatrical representation that have shaped Asian American solo performance. In particular, it focuses on how solo performan…
The Theatre of David Henry Hwang
Between the Personal and the Universal
This article surveys the history of Asian American solo performance from the 1970s to the 1990s by examining the approaches, goals, and styles of five representative artists: Winston Tong, Lane Nishikawa, Jude Narita, Dan Kwong, and Denise Uyehara. Using a broadly chronological trajectory, the article explores major modes of theatrical representation that have shaped Asian American solo performance. In particular, it focuses on how solo performan…
Between the Personal and the Universal
This article surveys the history of Asian American solo performance from the 1970s to the 1990s by examining the approaches, goals, and styles of five representative artists: Winston Tong, Lane Nishikawa, Jude Narita, Dan Kwong, and Denise Uyehara. Using a broadly chronological trajectory, the article explores major modes of theatrical representation that have shaped Asian American solo performance. In particular, it focuses on how solo performan…
Transnational Legitimization of an Actor
He is the voice of the father in the Disney animation film Mulan (1998). He is Sensei in the Hollywood hit film Beverly Hills Ninja (1997). He is Lieutenant Hip in the 007 film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). These examples may trigger memories of Soon-Tek Oh in the minds of many Americans. Some would vaguely remember him as the “oriental” actor whose face often gets confused with those of other Asian and Asian American actors, such as Mako a…
National Abjection
Reviewed by: National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage Esther Kim Lee National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage. By Karen Shimakawa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002; pp. xi + 192. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. National Abjection by Karen Shimakawa is the latest addition to the small but growing field of scholarship in Asian American theatre and performance. The book provides critical analysis of a number of Asian American "p…
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies Esther Kim Lee Chair: Esther Kim Lee Committee Members: Jasbir Puar, Cynthia Wu Winner: Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet, by Lisa Nakamura The selection committee found all nominated books excellent and representative of the rich fields of cultural studies and Asian American studies. For the committee, Lisa Nakamura’s Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet stood out as the book that best demonstrates the…
Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas
Showcasing the dynamism of contemporary Korean diasporic theater, this anthology features seven plays by second-generation Korean diasporic writers from the United States, Canada, and Chile. By bringing the plays together in this collection, Esther Kim Lee highlights the themes and styles that have enlivened Korean diasporic theater in the Americas since the 1990s. Some of the plays are set in urban Koreatowns. One takes place in the middle of Te…
The Theatre of David Henry Hwang
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
Reviewed by: M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang Esther Kim Lee M. BUTTERFLY. By David Henry Hwang. Directed by Julie Taymor. Cort Theatre, New York City. November 4, 2017. David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly is one of the most famous plays of the theatre canon. It has been included in anthologies, syllabi, and discussions of race, Orientalism, sexuality, gender, and performance. Its New York premiere in March 1988 was an instant hit and ran for 777 p…
A conversation about new directions in studies of modernity and theatre
LeAnn Fields and University of Michigan Press
In 1987, LeAnn Fields acquired Lynda Hart‘s Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women’s Theatre. By the time Fields retired in 2024, she had built a list of more than 280 books in the field of theatre and performance studies at the University of Michigan Press. Hart’s Making a Spectacle is a foundational and still radical book of critical essays on gender, the body, and spectatorship, topics that continue to chart and reverberate …
Asian Culture and Media Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art history (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)