Abstract
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.
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