The Richard Rodgers reader /

Table of Contents: “…Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers [1969] : Pal Joey ; Endings and beginnings ; Words and Music ; Allegro ; South Pacific ; Pipe Dream ; Flower Drum Song ; The Sound of Music ; No Strings ; Do I hear a waltz? …”
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Understanding David Henry Hwang / by Boles, William C., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Butterfly : controversy, love, failure, and gold -- A musical Hwang : Flower drum song -- Wrapping up, beginning anew : Yellow face and Chinglish.…”
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The melancholy of race / by Cheng, Anne Anlin

Table of Contents: “…Beauty and Ideal Citizenship: Inventing Asian America in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1961) -- A Fable of Exquisite Corpses: Maxine Hong Kingston, Assimilation, and the Hypochondriacal Response -- Fantasy's Repulsion and Investment: David Henry Hwang and Ralph Ellison -- History in/against the Fragment: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha -- Difficult Loves: Anna Deavere Smith and the Politics of Grief.…”
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The song is you : musical theatre and the politics of bursting into song and dance / by Rogers, James Bradley, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…-- Bring on the Girls : The Princess Theatre & The (Tired) Businesswoman -- His Innermost Being : Brecht, Musicals, and the Politics of Identification -- The Rhythmic Integration of Blackness : Rouben Mamoulian and Show Boat -- The Exotic and Erotic Economy of Musical Impersonation -- Get Out of That Dress : David Henry Hwang's Flower Drum Song -- The Through-Sung Musical : From Ballet Ballads to Hamilton -- Conclusion. …”
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Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / by Floreani, Tracy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Cultural narratives and American identities -- The land of plenty : American popular culture and the literary immigrant in C.Y. Lee's The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- What's for sale : consumer fantasy, American women, and narratives of social mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha and The I Love Lucy Show -- The celluloid fantasy : negotiating the ethnic male star image in William Saroyan's Rock Wagram -- Leaving the dark room in a lighter mood : narrating invisibility in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.…”
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