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Imperialism and Theatre : Essays on World Theatre, Drama and Performance.
Title:
Imperialism and Theatre : Essays on World Theatre, Drama and Performance.
Author:
Gainor, J. Ellen.
ISBN:
9780203359945
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (268 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 VIETNAMESE THEATRE OF RESISTANCE: Thich Nhat Hanh's Metaphysical Sortie on the Margins -- 2 MISE-EN-(COLONIAL-) SCÈNE: The Theatre of the Bengal Renaissance -- 3 POSTCOLONIAL BRITISH THEATRE: Black Voices at the Center -- 4 ERECT SONS AND DUTIFUL DAUGHTERS: Imperialism, Empires and Canadian Theatre -- 5 CONTEMPORARY MAYAN THEATRE AND ETHNIC CONFLICT: The Recovery and (Re)Interpretation of History -- 6 ELECTRIC SALOME: Loie Fuller at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 -- 7 DRESSED TO KILL: A Post-Colonial Reading of Costume and the Body in Australian Theatre -- 8 REPRESENTING EMPIRE: Class, Culture, and the Popular Theatre in the Nineteenth Century -- 9 "THAT FLUCTUATING MOVEMENT OF NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS": Protest, Publicity, and Postcolonial Theatre in South Africa -- 10 LINGUISTIC IMPERIALISM, THE EARLY ABBEY THEATRE, AND THE TRANSLATIONS OF BRIAN FRIEL -- 11 DECOLONIZING THE THEATRE: Césaire, Serreau and the Drama of Negritude -- 12 INTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCE, THEATRE ANTHROPOLOGY, AND THE IMPERIALIST CRITIQUE: Identities, Inheritances, and Neo-Orthodoxies -- 13 SATELLITE DRAMA: Imperialism, Slovakia and the Case of Peter Karvas -- 14 ON JEAN GENET'S LATE WORKS -- 15 STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL: Anti-Imperialist Theatrical Forms in the Anglophone Caribbean -- Index.
Abstract:
Imperialism is a transnational and transhistorical phenomenon; it occurs neither in limited areas nor at one specific moment. In cultures from across the world theatrical performance has long been a site for both the representation and support of imperialism, and resistance and rebellion against it. Imperialism and Theatre is a groundbreaking collection which explores the questions of why and how the theatre was selected within imperial cultures for the representation of the concerns of both the colonizers and the colonized. Gathering together fifteen noted scholars and theatre practitioners, this collection spans global and historical boundaries and presents a uniquely comprehensive study of post-colonial drama. The essays engage in current theoretical issues while shifting the focus from the printed text to theatre as a cultural formation and locus of political force. A compelling and extremely timely work, Imperialism and Theatre reveals fascinating new dimensions to the post-colonial debate. Contributors: Nora Alter; Sudipto Chatterjee; Mary Karen Dahl; Alan Filewood; Donald H. Frischmann; Rhonda Garelick; Helen Gilbert; Michael Hays; Loren Kruger; Josephine Lee; Robert Eric Livingston; Julie S. Peters; Michael Quinn; Edward Said; Elaine Savory.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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