Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias

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221 INDEX Affects, 51; nativized, 141 Afong Moy, 24 African American woman, 186 Agnes (character from Asian Boys, Vol. 1), 102–3, 106–7, 113–14; construction of, 117; Singapore represented in, 109–10; U.S. traditions and, 109–10 “Aiiieeeee,” 30 Altman, Dennis, 118 America Is in the Heart (Bulosan), 150 American exceptionalism, 4 American Idol, 25 “Americanization,” xiii–xiv American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (2006) (Isaac), 21 Anal sex, 133–34 Angels in America (Kushner), x Anonymity, 74, 159 Anthropological gaze, 18, 43, 217n5 Anthropology: of love, 199n64; visual, 44–45 A/P/A. See Asian/Pacific/American Archives, 51 Archiving Cane (2012), 209n61 Artaud, Antonin, 36–37, 82 ASEAN. See Association of Southeast Asian Nations Asia, 34–35; global, 12; imagery, 24, 118; as native boy, 4. See also Diaspora; InterAsia ; specific places “Asian,” 135, 136 Asian America, xiv, 26–27, 138–39, 143; “Aiiieeeee,” 30; cultural nationalism, 30, 32; masculinity in, 142; performance art, 11, 162, 164–65; U.S. imperial histories in, 14 index 222 Asian/American studies, 10, 142, 172 Asian boy: as cartoons, 154; Chinese males as, 28; in colonial scenario, 143; as houseboy , ix, 154, 160; masculinity and, 32; native boy as, 26–27; racialized construction of, 28–29; representation of, 118. See also Global Asian queer boys Asian Boys, Vol. 1 (Sa’at), 100, 134–36, 207n42; CRC reports and, 104–5; interAsian construction of, 107, 109; (re)making history with, 101–17; multiculturalism , 104, 117; Natyasastra and, 110–11; publicity shots, 107, 108, 207n40; vectors of understanding, 117–19; Western homosexuality and, 114–15; white used in, 112–13. See also specific characters Asian Boys, Vol. 1, 2, and 3 (Sa’at), 26–27 Asian culture: love of, 156–57; myths, 111 Asian exotica, 150, 217n6 Asian identity, 12; diasporic, xiv, 173; Singapore ’s, 31 Asian male representations, 160 Asian/Pacific/American (A/P/A) performance epistemologies, 12 Asian performance, 3–4, 8, 10, 15–16, 162, 168; history and, 21; queer politics of, 30. See also specific performances Asian pet, 150–51 Asian possession, 157 Asian “tenderness,” 154 Asiantheater,39;inmoderntextbooks,35–37; performanceintheAsiasand,34;studies, 35.SeealsoEnglish-languagegaytheater “Asian values” campaign, 30, 132, 134 Asian woman, 178–79; as desperate Asian housewife, 146–52, 154; hypersexual, 185; visual sovereignty and, 183 The Asias: dislocations of, 146; navigating, 145; performance in, 34–40, 144; U.S. and, 144. See also Queer Asias Assemblies of interpretation, 10–12. See also specific modes of interpretation Assimilation, 181–82 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 28 Atanarjuat, 182–83 Australia, 193n22 Authenticity, 30, 39, 170, 181 Baba Malay, 176–77 BACN. See Balinese Arts and Culture News Badung massacres (1906), 53–56 Bagus, Ide Gde Ing, 79 Balakrishnan, Vivian, 127 Bali, xiv, 11, 196n9; artistic endeavor in, 41; colonial production of tradition, 56; Dutch colonialism in, 53–58; exoticism of, 44–45, 52–53, 76, 87, 89; fantasy of, 80–81; films about, 44; gendered imagery of, 43; as living museum, 79; magic and, 41–42; military coup 1965, 88; paradisal representations of, 43, 87; as “paradise lost,” 196n11; sexuality in, 60–61; spells of difference in, 14; Spies’s love for, 75–76; Spies’s vision of, 44, 81–82; tourism, 53, 57, 59–60, 80–81; tropic spell and, 87–89. See also specific films, books, and performances Bali, the Imaginary Museum: The Photographs of Walter Spies and Beryl de Zoete (Hitchcock and Norris), 79 Balinese Arts and Culture News (BACN), 61, 198n50 Balinese men: in early choreography of kecak, 70; as kecak monkeys, 69; in languid pose, 50; in martial pose, 49; peering out from mask, 47; in sampan, 48; Spies’s relations with, 60–62, 64 Balinese native, 41–42 Balinese performance, 18, 36, 58, 87; colonial dyad in, 41–46. See also Kecak; specific dance-dramas Balinization project, 79–80 Baliology, 56–57 Barong (“dragon”), 45, 85, 86, 201n116 Barthes, Roland, 104 Bascara, Victor, 172 Bateson, Gregory, 45, 57 Baum, Vicki, 55–56, 57, 197n28 Belo, Jane, 45, 57 Bernard Boursicot (character from M. Butterfly), 139 Berry, Chris, 209n62 Bhabha, Homi, 167–68 “Bhuwana Winasa” (A World Destroyed), 55 Boon, James, 88 Boone, Joseph, 5, 64 “Borderzones,” 175. See also Transcolonial borderzones Bourdieu, Pierre, 126 Boy (character from Asian Boys, Vol. 1), 106, 113–14 The Boy (character from Go, or The index 223 Approximate Infinite Universe of Mrs. Robert Lomax), 147, 154–58 Brahma...