I'll Disband My Roving Gang of Thirty Asian Playwrights When You Stop Doing Asian Plays in Yellow Face* (*Exception: David Henry Hwang's play Yell

I'll Disband My Roving Gang of Thirty Asian Playwrights When You Stop Doing Asian Plays in Yellow Face* (*Exception: David Henry Hwang's play Yell by HowlRound

By Mike Lew. I would posit that when it comes to writers of color, we're being subjected to an anthropological gaze that places our plays under the context of "ethnic work," some kind of category apart from other new plays and judged by a separate criteria. There's this burden of expectation that all we have in us is stories from our homeland.

SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PM on October 6, 2014

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