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Author : Maureen Anne Moynagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015063099421
A series that sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work readily available.
Author : Kailin Wright
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228003243
In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than updating popular narratives, adaptation informs understandings of culture, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as individual experiences. In Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre Kailin Wright investigates adaptations that retell popular stories with a political purpose and examines how they acknowledge diverse realities and transform our past. Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre explores adaptations of Canadian history, Shakespeare, Greek mythologies, and Indigenous history by playwrights who identify as English-Canadian, African-Canadian, French-Canadian, French, Kuna Rappahannock, and Delaware from the Six Nations. Along with new considerations of the activist potential of popular Canadian theatre, this book outlines eight strategies that adaptors employ to challenge conceptions of what it means to be Indigenous, Black, queer, or female. Recent cancellations of theatre productions whose creators borrowed elements from minority cultures demonstrate the need for a distinction between political adaptation and cultural appropriation. Wright builds on Linda Hutcheon's definition of adaptation as repetition with difference and applies identification theory to illustrate how political adaptation at once underlines and undermines its canonical source. An exciting intervention in adaptation studies, Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre unsettles the dynamics of popular and political theatre and rethinks the ways performance can contribute to how one country defines itself.
Author : Ric Knowles
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472053605
"Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a representative global city in the first country in the world to adopt a policy of official multiculturalism--stages its diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. By examining the ways in which Indigenous, Filipino, Latino/a and Afro-Caribbean Canadian theater in Toronto has developed play structures based on culturally specific forms of expression, Performing the Intercultural City analyzes the ways in which theater companies from a variety of marginalized communities of color in Toronto have worked across cultural difference to produce a new kind of intercultural performance"--
Author : Djanet Sears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0887546641
Volume II features critical introductions to each of the 11 plays, which include: Angelique by Lorena Gale; Consecrated Ground by George Boyd; Common Man's Guide to Loving Women by Andrew Moodie; El Paso by Michael Miller; and Adventures of a Brown Girl in Search of a God by Djanet Sears.
Author : Kailin Wright
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228003236
In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than updating popular narratives, adaptation informs understandings of culture, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as individual experiences. In Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre Kailin Wright investigates adaptations that retell popular stories with a political purpose and examines how they acknowledge diverse realities and transform our past. Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre explores adaptations of Canadian history, Shakespeare, Greek mythologies, and Indigenous history by playwrights who identify as English-Canadian, African-Canadian, French-Canadian, French, Kuna Rappahannock, and Delaware from the Six Nations. Along with new considerations of the activist potential of popular Canadian theatre, this book outlines eight strategies that adaptors employ to challenge conceptions of what it means to be Indigenous, Black, queer, or female. Recent cancellations of theatre productions whose creators borrowed elements from minority cultures demonstrate the need for a distinction between political adaptation and cultural appropriation. Wright builds on Linda Hutcheon's definition of adaptation as repetition with difference and applies identification theory to illustrate how political adaptation at once underlines and undermines its canonical source. An exciting intervention in adaptation studies, Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre unsettles the dynamics of popular and political theatre and rethinks the ways performance can contribute to how one country defines itself.
Author : Djanet Sears
Publisher : Sister Vision Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015043052441
Author : Linda Avril Burnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215365912
Theatre in Atlantic Canada sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.
Author : Graham Reynolds
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552668566
In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon. Most Canadians are aware of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a racially segregated bus in Alabama, but Viola Desmond’s act of resistance occurred nine years earlier. However, many Canadians are still unaware of Desmond’s story or that racial segregation existed throughout many parts of Canada during most of the twentieth century. On the subject of race, Canadians seem to exhibit a form of collective amnesia. Viola Desmond’s Canada is a groundbreaking book that provides a concise overview of the narrative of the Black experience in Canada. Reynolds traces this narrative from slavery under French and British rule in the eighteenth century to the practice of racial segregation and the fight for racial equality in the twentieth century. Included are personal recollections by Wanda Robson, Viola Desmond’s youngest sister, together with important but previously unpublished documents and other primary sources in the history of Blacks in Canada. NEW: Teaching Guide Available Here
Author : Jody Nyasha Warner
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780888997791
Tells the story of Viola Desmond, an African Canadian woman who, in 1946, challenged a Nova Scotia movie theater's segregation policy by refusing to move from her seat to an upstairs section designated for use by blacks.
Author : Althea Prince
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781554830954
In a mix of short fiction, poetry, dub poetry and hip hop, some of Black Canada's foremost writers from across generations explore history, community, love, and healing. The collection consists of writing from Catherine Bain, George Elliott Clarke, Gayle Gonsalves, Joanne C. Hillhouse, Clifton Joseph, Dwayne Morgan, Motion, Jelani Nias (J-Wyze), Djanet Sears, Mansa Trotman, and the editor, Althea Prince.
Author : Marc Maufort,Caroline De Wagter
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 905201454X
In the last decades of the twentieth century, North American drama has powerfully enacted the problematic notions of cultural memory and identity, as the essays assembled in this critical anthology demonstrate. Echoing Derrida's non-essentialist interpretation of the term «signature», this collection provides an innovative focus on North American theatre and drama as a site of latent cultural memories. In this volume, the concept of cultural memory offers a privileged vantage point from which to redefine issues of diasporic identities, exilic predicaments, and multi-ethnic subject positions at the dawn of a new century. Playwrights examined here include noted Canadian and US artists such as Marie Clements, Eva Ensler, Lorraine Hansberry, Tomson Highway, Cherríe Moraga, Djanet Sears, Guillermo Verdecchia, August Wilson, and Chay Yew, to cite but a few. In the process of remembering, North American dramatists develop new aesthetic modes in which the signatures of the past merge with the present and foreshadow an imagined future.
Author : Barrington Walker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442646896
The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century. This collection demonstrates that the social history of Blacks in Canada has always been inextricably bound to questions of law, and that the role of the law in shaping Black life was often ambiguous and shifted over time. Comprised of eleven engaging chapters, organized both thematically and chronologically, it includes a substantive introduction that provides a synthesis and overview of this complex history. This outstanding collection will appeal to both advanced specialists and undergraduate students and makes an important contribution to an emerging field of scholarly inquiry.
Author : Cheryl Thompson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771123600
One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada’s black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, Beauty in a Box widens our understanding of the politics of black hair. The book analyzes advertisements and articles from media—newspapers, advertisements, television, and other sources—that focus on black communities in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary. The author explains the role local black community media has played in the promotion of African American–owned beauty products; how the segmentation of beauty culture (i.e., the sale of black beauty products on store shelves labelled “ethnic hair care”) occurred in Canada; and how black beauty culture, which was generally seen as a small niche market before the 1970s, entered Canada’s mainstream by way of department stores, drugstores, and big-box retailers. Beauty in a Box uses an interdisciplinary framework, engaging with African American history, critical race and cultural theory, consumer culture theory, media studies, diasporic art history, black feminism, visual culture, film studies, and political economy to explore the history of black beauty culture in both Canada and the United States.
Author : Marc Maufort
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9052011788
The fast-growing body of postcolonial drama is progressively gaining its just recognition in the twentieth-century canon of English-language plays. From the vantage point of various samplings along the Trans-Pacific axis linking English Canada, Australia and New Zealand, this monograph seeks to document the significance of this emerging postcolonial theater. More specifically, it examines the myriad ways in which, over the last two decades, representative mainstream, ethnic and First Nations playwrights have dramatized Europe's «Other» in its multiple guises. In their efforts to match new content with innovative form, these artists have followed transgressive itineraries, redrawing the boundaries of conventional Western stage realism. Their new aesthetics often relies on techniques akin to Homi Bhabha's notions of hybridity and mimicry. The present study offers detailed analyses of the modes of hybridization through which Judith Thompson, Louis Nowra, Tomson Highway, Jack Davis, Hone Kouka, and other prominent writers have articulated subtle forms of psychic, grotesque, and mythic magic realism. Their legacy will undoubtedly affect the postcolonial dramaturgies of the twenty-first century.
Author : Djanet Sears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106017284156
"One of the most profound yet joyous new Canadian plays in recent memory."--Richard Ouzounian, Toronto Star