Word: orientalia
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...femaleness, not ethnicity, is at the heart of the story. "The relationships this girl has with her parents," she says, "are very specifically a daughter's relationships, in ways that transcend culture but are deeply linked to gender." Yet the show seems far more a piece of Orientalia than an exploration of a young girl's mind and dreams. What it needs is fewer warriors and more women...
...Asian-American literature providing `Orientalia' for the intelligentsia?" Chou asked, echoing a statement made by Hwang...
...behoove my immigrant legacy of belief in education and upward mobility." In 1983, when he was 26, Hwang suffered the sort of crisis of conscience that comes to many people whose success was quick and easy. "I lost belief in my subject matter -- I dismissed it as 'Orientalia for the intelligentsia' -- and virtually stopped writing for two years. I thought seriously about going to law school." After the anxiety passed, Hwang tried to broaden his horizons in Rich Relations, his first play not about Asians. To his disappointment but not surprise, critics took him to task. "There is in this...
...McHenry, Md., and one of the first Teddy bears, approved by Teddy Roosevelt himself. Treasures of the Smithsonian by Edwards Park (Smithsonian Books; ($60) is a grand but personal tour of these and all the other Smithsonian collections, including such exotic arrays as the Freer Gallery's elegant Orientalia and the rich lode of artifacts in the Museum of African Art. It is sobering to realize that the treasures that gleam from these 470 pages are a mere sample of the national attic's contents...
Some of those who worked on the story were knowledgeably specific in their selections. "An intact Jaipur vase to replace one cracked en route from the Far East," requests Chicago Orientalia Buff Pat Delaney, who covered the Midwest auction scene. Erik Amfitheatrof, who interviewed directors of Sotheby's and Christie's in London-and who began buying Japanese art while reporting from Tokyo in the 1960s-dreams of finding the Hiroshige print White Rain at Shōno under his Christmas tree. "Alas, my chances are slim," he admits. "It was auctioned at Christie's New York...