Further Reading
CRITICISM
Campbell, Karen. “In the Realm of the Voices.” American Theater 20, no. 8 (October 2003): 103-06.
Reviews The Sound of a Voice.
Cheng, Anne Anlin. “The Melancholy of Race.” Kenyon Review 19, no. 1 (winter 1997): 49-62.
Provides a discussion of representations of race in M. Butterfly and The Flower Drum Song.
Cooperman, Robert. “Across the Boundaries of Cultural Identity: An Interview with David Henry Hwang.” In Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre & Drama, edited by Marc Maufort, pp. 364-73. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.
Offers an interview with Hwang that took place October 25, 1993.
Hawthorne, Melanie C. “‘Du Du that Voodoo’: M. Venus and M. Butterfly.” Esprit Createur 37, no. 4 (winter 1997): 58-66.
Compares M. Butterfly with the late-nineteenth-century novel Monsieur Venus, by Marguerite Eymery Vallette, and examines the ways each text treats gender ambiguity.
King, Robert L. “Recent Drama.” Massachusetts Review 30, no. 1 (spring 1989): 122-36.
Provides discussion of Hwang's M. Butterfly.
Shimakawa, Karen. “‘Who's to Say?’: Or, Making Space for Gender and Ethnicity in M. Butterfly.” Theater Journal 45, no. 3 (October 1993): 349.
Provides an examination of Hwang's constructions of gender and ethnicity in M. Butterfly.
Siebert, Gary. “Love Stew.” America 158, no. 14 (9 April 1988): 385.
Offers a review of M. Butterfly.
Additional coverage of Hwang's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Asian American Literature; Contemporary American Dramatists; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 127, 132; Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series, Vols. 76, 124; Contemporary Dramatists, Ed. 5; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 55; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 212, 228; DISCovering Authors Modules: Dramatists; DISCovering Authors, 3.0; Drama Criticism, Vols. 4, 23; Drama for Students, Vols. 11, 18; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 2; and Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4.
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