No Safe Spaces : Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater.
Title:
No Safe Spaces : Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater.
Author:
Pao, Angela C.
ISBN:
9780472027972
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Series:
Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- One: Bearing the Weight of Reality - The Theatricality of Cross-Racial Corporeal Encounters -- Two: Re-casting Race - Nontraditional Casting and Racial Formation -- Three: Bodies Like Gardens - Classical Tragedy and Comedy in Color -- Four: Beyond Type - Re-casting Modern Drama and National Identity -- Five: The Theater, Not the City - Genre and Politics in Antirealistic Drama -- Six: Chasing Rainbows - Re-casting Race and Ethnicity in the Broadway Musical -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Explores fifty years of non-traditional casting practices on the American stage and the questions of cultural identity that they have raised.
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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