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"M. Butterfly": Orientalism, Gender, and a Critique of Essentialist Identity

1990; University of Minnesota Press; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1354343

1460-2458

Dorinne Kondo,

Asian Culture and Media Studies

In David Henry Hwang's Tony award-winning play M. Butterfly, Broadway audiences encounter a dazzling spectacle, in which a tale of seemingly mistaken gender identities and delusions perpetuated over decades occasions a richly textured production moving in and around the spaces of global politics, gender and racial identities, and the power relations inevitably present in what we call love. A close examination of M. Butterfly has profound implications for our assumptions about identity, including anthro-