ENDURING STEREOTYPES AND AUTHORIAL SELF-SUBVERSION: INVESTIGATING THE TOURISTIC TREATMENTOF THEORIENTAL IN EUGENE O’NEILL’S MARCO MILLIONS ANDHENRYDAVIDHWANG’S M. BUTTERFLY
ENDURING STEREOTYPES AND AUTHORIAL SELF-SUBVERSION: INVESTIGATING THE TOURISTIC TREATMENTOF THEORIENTAL IN EUGENE O’NEILL’S MARCO MILLIONS ANDHENRYDAVIDHWANG’S M. BUTTERFLY

Summary/Abstract: My paper investigates the continuing and globally relevant challenges posed to the audience by two American plays from the first and the second half of the twentieth century, in which the authorial intention for a more profound and historically accurate portrayal of the Asian characters and culture is self-subverted by the quintessential melodramatic nature of the dramatic text. Even if the two plays are quite wide-apart chronologically speaking, their common Oriental topic makes for an interesting parallel, in which the political purposes of their authors hold a central place.

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