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Challenging Nostalgia: Unveiling the Ghost of Seattle's Nippon Kan
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 48, Number 2 (T 182), Summer 2004
- pp. 91-107
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
The Nippon Kan, a theatre hall built by Seattle's Japanese immigrants, went dark when President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, removing Americans of Japanese descent from the West Coast. Au Yong's auto-ethnographic essay addresses how nostalgia and identity affect performances in the present, incorporating voiceovers, program notes, and the ruminations of a pianist to complicate his memories of Woman, Monkey, and Kabuki Joe, which premiered at the Nippon Kan. Winner of TDR's Student Essay Contest for 2003.
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