HUMA 1951 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kate Bornstein, David Henry Hwang, Communist Party Of China

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1951
• Professor: Deborah Orr

Document Summary

He is not arrogant or sexually aggressive, as are many of the western men around him, but he is heavily influenced by the orientalist and imperialist ideas that pervade his culture. Plot overview: rene gallimard becomes infatuated with song liling, a chinese opera singer he believes to be female. Unbeknownst to rene, song is a communist operative who has been using him to collect valuable information about the vietnam war. Eventually rene loses his position in vietnam and is sent back to france. Liling follows him there to gain more information, and is revealed to be male: e(cid:374)e e(cid:374)te(cid:396)s a(cid:374) affai(cid:396) (cid:449)ith lili(cid:374)g, (cid:449)ho(cid:859)s fa(cid:373)ous fo(cid:396) he(cid:396) pe(cid:396)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e i(cid:374) pu(cid:272)(cid:272)i(cid:374)i(cid:859)s. Rene continuously denigrates liling, fo(cid:396)(cid:272)i(cid:374)g he(cid:396) to sa(cid:455) that she(cid:859)s his (cid:862)(cid:271)utte(cid:396)ful(cid:455). (cid:863) Orientalism: (cid:862)as soo(cid:374) as the weste(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:373)a(cid:374) encounters the east he(cid:859)s al(cid:396)ead(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)fused. Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes. In the play, we met 12 year old herculines.