D. H. 황의 『옐로우 페이스』에 나타난 아시아계 여성 재현의 변화

D. H. Hwang’s Changes in Representations of Asian Women in Yellow Face

This paper examines D. H. Hwang’s changes in representations of Asian women and his search for subjectivity as a minor writer in Yellow Face (2007). Face Value (1993), which was his second Broadway production, turned out to be a great failure. Hwang blames a woman for his involvement in the Yellow Face casting controversy on the production of Miss Saigon. Therefore, he represents her as a stereotype of Asian women, a femme fatale, like the Dragon Lady in Face Value. However, its failure offered the inspiration for his Obie Award-winning Yellow Face, so the play is no longer a failure. The factors that caused the success of Yellow Face were the changes in representations of women from the Dragon Lady to real women with strong subjectivities as Asian Americans; and, what is more, he appropriates their subversive power of sexual politics through becoming a minor writer.