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@article{ART001870084},
author={Hyun-joo Ki},
title={Building Multicultural Space At the Scene of the Racial Conflicts: Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2014},
volume={27},
number={1},
pages={177-200}

TY - JOUR
AU - Hyun-joo Ki
TI - Building Multicultural Space At the Scene of the Racial Conflicts: Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2014
VL - 27
IS - 1
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 177
EP - 200
SN - 1226-3397
AB - Both Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight deal with the issues concerning racial conflicts which were aggravated during the late 1980s and the early 1990s. In both plays, reenactment plays an important role to imagine a multicultural space at the venue of the clash. While cultural difference of the blacks and Asian Americans is stressed as the critical factor for the interracial conflicts, the political, social and economic condition of the ghetto is obscured in the plays. As the racial conflicts hardly get resolved, the plays imagine traversing racial boundaries by reenactment or performance. Further these techniques and devices interrupt the sequence of the play and provide the audience with a chance to question their perceptions of others. Besides, these Brechtian techniques employed in the two plays defamiliarize the major issues and intervene in the process of the audience’s uncritical reception. Crossing racial roles or inventing alternative reality in Kimchee and Chitlins and performance of all the characters by one body in Twilight demonstrates that the boundaries established in between races and ethnicities can be blurred. Multicultural space can be imagined after the boundaries are broken down.
KW - Kimchee and Chitlins;boycott;black residents;Korean merchants;racial conflict;multiculturalism;reenactment;performance;Twilight
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Hyun-joo Ki. (2014). Building Multicultural Space At the Scene of the Racial Conflicts: Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight. Journal of Modern English Drama, 27(1), 177-200.

Hyun-joo Ki. 2014, "Building Multicultural Space At the Scene of the Racial Conflicts: Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.27, no.1 pp.177-200.

Hyun-joo Ki "Building Multicultural Space At the Scene of the Racial Conflicts: Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight" Journal of Modern English Drama 27.1 pp.177-200 (2014) : 177.

Hyun-joo Ki. Building Multicultural Space At the Scene of the Racial Conflicts: Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight. 2014; 27(1), 177-200.

Hyun-joo Ki. "Building Multicultural Space At the Scene of the Racial Conflicts: Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight" Journal of Modern English Drama 27, no.1 (2014) : 177-200.

Hyun-joo Ki. Building Multicultural Space At the Scene of the Racial Conflicts: Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight. Journal of Modern English Drama, 27(1), 177-200.

Hyun-joo Ki. Building Multicultural Space At the Scene of the Racial Conflicts: Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2014; 27(1) 177-200.

Hyun-joo Ki. Building Multicultural Space At the Scene of the Racial Conflicts: Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight. 2014; 27(1), 177-200.

Hyun-joo Ki. "Building Multicultural Space At the Scene of the Racial Conflicts: Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight" Journal of Modern English Drama 27, no.1 (2014) : 177-200.