NEGOTIATING A WAY THROUGH IDENTITIES IN DAVID HENRY HWANGʹʹS FOB

In their new homelands, immigrants often suffer what is generally known as "crisis of identity." Usually, those immigrants are offered three choices: either to stick to their original identities, or to assimilate into the new one, or to strike a balance between the two identities. Hwangʹs FOB is concerned with the politics of identity as negotiated by its two main characters Dale and Steve. It falls into three main sections of various lengths. While section one is an introduction to politics of identity on the Asian American stage, sections two and three deal with Hwangʹs attitude towards the question of identity, and the negotiation of identity in his play FOB.