Staging Cultural Encounters

Author : Jane E. Goodman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253049636

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Staging Cultural Encounters by Jane E. Goodman Pdf

Staging Cultural Encounters tells stories about performances of cultural encounter and cultural exchange during the US tour of the Algerian theater troupe Istijmam Culturelle in 2016. Jane E. Goodman follows the Algerian theater troupe as they prepare for and then tour the U.S. under the auspices of the Center Stage program, sponsored by the US State Department to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding. The title of the play Istijmam produced was translated as "Apples," written by Abdelkader Alloula, a renowned Algerian playwright, director, and actor who was assassinated in 1994. Goodman take readers on tour with the actors as they move from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to the large state universities of New Hampshire and Indiana, and from a tiny community theater in small-town New England to the stage of the avant-garde La MaMa Theater in New York City. Staging Cultural Encounters takes up conundrums of cross-cultural encounter, challenges in translation, and audience reception, offering a frank account of the encounters with American audiences and the successes and disappointments of the experience of exchange.

Author : Dagnosław Demski,Dominika Czarnecka
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789633864401

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Staged Otherness by Dagnosław Demski,Dominika Czarnecka Pdf

The cultural phenomenon of exhibiting non-European people in front of the European audiences in the 19th and 20th century was concentrated in the metropolises in the western part of the continent. Nevertheless, traveling ethnic troupes and temporary exhibitions of non-European humans took place also in territories located to the east of the Oder river and Austria. The contributors to this edited volume present practices of ethnographic shows in Russia, Poland, Czechia, Slovenia, Hungary, Germany, Romania, and Austria and discuss the reactions of local audiences. The essays offer critical arguments to rethink narratives of cultural encounters in the context of ethnic shows. By demonstrating the many ways in which the western models and customs were reshaped, developed, and contested in Central and Eastern European contexts, the authors argue that the dominant way of characterizing these performances as “human zoos” is too narrow. The contributors had to tackle the difficult task of finding traces other than faint copies of official press releases by the tour organizers. The original source material was drawn from local archives, museums, and newspapers of the discussed period. A unique feature of the volume is the rich amount of images that complement every single case study of ethnic shows.

Author : Jane E. Goodman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253217844

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Berber Culture on the World Stage by Jane E. Goodman Pdf

Annotation Explores Berber cultural identity and performance in Algeria, France, and on the world music scene.

Author : Elizabeth Straughan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317129288

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Geographical Aesthetics by Elizabeth Straughan Pdf

Geographical Aesthetics places the terms 'aesthetics' and 'geography' under critical question together, responding both to the increasing calls from within geography to develop a 'geographical aesthetics', and a resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in conceptual and empirical questions around geoaesthetics, environmental aesthetics, as well as the spatialities of the aesthetic. Despite taking up an identifiable role within the geographical imagination and sensibilities for centuries, and having what is arguably a key place in the making of the modern discipline, aesthetics remains a relatively under-theorized field within geography. Across 15 chapters Geographical Aesthetics brings together timely commentaries by international, interdisciplinary scholars to rework historical relations between geography and aesthetics, and reconsider how it is we might understand aesthetics. In renewing aesthetics as a site of investigation, but also an analytic object through which we can think about worldly encounters, Geographical Aesthetics presents a reworking of our geographical imaginary of the aesthetic.

Author : C. Snyder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137039477

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British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters by C. Snyder Pdf

This book reveals that British modernists read widely in anthropology and ethnography, sometimes conducted their own 'fieldwork', and thematized the challenges of cultural encounters in their fiction, letters, and essays.

Author : Yana Meerzon,Katharina Pewny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351270243

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Dramaturgy of Migration by Yana Meerzon,Katharina Pewny Pdf

Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multilingual Encounters in Contemporary Theatre examines the function of dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg in making a theatre performance situated at the crossroads of multiple theatre forms and performative devices. This book explores how these forms and devices are employed, challenged, experimented with, and reflected upon in the work of migrant theatre by performance and dance artists. Meerzon and Pewny ask: What impact do peoples’ movement between continents, countries, cultures, and languages have on the process of meaning production in plays about migration created by migrant artists? What dramaturgical devices do migrant artists employ when they work in the context of multilingual production, with the texts written in many languages, and when staging performances that target multicultural and multilingual theatregoers? And, finally, how do the new multilingual practices of theatre writing and performance meet and transform the existing practices of postdramatic dramaturgies? By considering these questions in a global context, the editors explore the overlapping complexities of migratory performances with both range and depth. Ideal for scholars, students, and practitioners of theatre, dramaturgy, and devising, Dramaturgy of Migration expresses not only the practicalities of migratory performances but also the emotional responses of the artists who stage them.

Author : Lise Paulsen Galal,Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030428860

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Organised Cultural Encounters by Lise Paulsen Galal,Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen Pdf

This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe. Organised cultural encounters is an umbrella concept referring to face-to-face encounters that are organised across a wide variety of social arenas in order to manage and/or transform problems perceived to stem from cultural difference. The authors base their focus on empirical contexts either located in Denmark or related to a Danish organisation, investigating interfaith work, training sessions in diversity management, volunteer tourism, a youth diversity project called the Cultural Encounters Ambassadors, and a community dance project. Through different theoretical approaches, and careful analyses of the micro-level practices occurring within the time-space of specific encounters, Galal and Hvenegård-Lassen demonstrate how both the interactions and their outcomes are considerably more complex – and contradictory – than evaluative and instrumental accounts of success or failure may capture. This book will provide a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars of intercultural relations working in the fields of cultural geography, anthropology, cultural studies, and migration studies.

Author : Geoffrey F. Hughes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253056450

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Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan by Geoffrey F. Hughes Pdf

In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan, Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the "marriage crisis" in Jordan and the Middle East. Rapid institutional, technological, and intellectual shifts in Jordan have challenged the traditional notions of marriage and the role of powerful patrilineal kin groups in society by promoting an alternative ideal of romantic love between husband and wife. Drawing on many years of fieldwork in rural Jordan, Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan provides a firsthand look at how expectations around marriage are changing for young people in the Middle East even as they are still expected to raise money for housing, bridewealth, and a wedding. Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan offers an intriguing look at the contrasts between the traditional values and social practices of rural Jordanians around marriage and the challenges and expectations of young people as their families negotiate the concept of kinship as part of the future of politics, family dynamics, and religious devotion

Author : Caroline Moine
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781785339103

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Screened Encounters by Caroline Moine Pdf

Established in 1955, the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival became a central arena for staging the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic, both domestically and in relation to West Germany and the rest of the world. Screened Encounters represents the definitive history of this key event, recounting the political and artistic exchanges it enabled from its founding until German unification, and tracing the outsize influence it exerted on international cultural relations during the Cold War.

Author : R. Hampson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230598003

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction by R. Hampson Pdf

This is the first major study to bring together for examination all of Conrad's Malay fiction: the early novels, Almayer's Folly , An Outcast of the Islands , and Lord Jim ; the two later novels, Victory and The Rescue ; and various short stories, such as The Lagoon and Karain . The volume focuses on cross-cultural encounters, cultural identity and cultural dislocation, paying particular attention to issues of race and gender. He also situates Conrad's fiction in relation to earlier English accounts of South-East Asia.

Author : Katrin Horn,Leopold Lippert,Ilka Saal,Pia Wiegmink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000433401

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American Cultures as Transnational Performance by Katrin Horn,Leopold Lippert,Ilka Saal,Pia Wiegmink Pdf

This book investigates transnational processes through the analytic lens of cultural performance. Structured around key concepts of performance studies––commons, skills, and traces––this edited collection addresses the political, normative, and historical implications of cultural performances beyond the limits of the (US) nation-state. These three central aspects of performance function as entryways to inquiries into transnational processes and allow the authors to shift the discussion away from text-centered approaches to intercultural encounters and to bring into focus the dynamic field that opens up between producer, art work, context, setting, and audience in the moment of performance as well as in its afterlife. The chapters provide fresh, performance-based approaches to notions of transcultural mobility and circulation, transnational cultural experience and knowledge formation, transnational public spheres, and identities’ rootedness in both specific local places and diasporic worlds beyond the written word. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of American studies, performance studies, and transnational studies

Author : Nicholas R. Jones
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271083926

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Staging Habla de Negros by Nicholas R. Jones Pdf

In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue. Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater and performative poetry from authors such as Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and Rodrigo de Reinosa, Jones makes a strong case for revising the belief, long held by literary critics and linguists, that white appropriations and representations of habla de negros language are “racist buffoonery” or stereotype. Instead, Jones shows black characters who laugh, sing, and shout, ultimately combating the violent desire of white supremacy. By placing early modern Iberia in conversation with discourses on African diaspora studies, Jones showcases how black Africans and their descendants who built communities in early modern Spain were rendered legible in performative literary texts. Accessibly written and theoretically sophisticated, Jones’s groundbreaking study elucidates the ways that habla de negros animated black Africans’ agency, empowered their resistance, and highlighted their African cultural retentions. This must-read book on identity building, performance, and race will captivate audiences across disciplines.

Author : Swartz, Larry
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551383002

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Dramathemes, 4th Edition by Swartz, Larry Pdf

In this totally revised 4th edition, Larry Swartz digs deeply into the riches of the past three books and considers the experiences of language arts teachers who have used all three versions for almost three decades. Full of engaging new ideas, the book includes many new sources and carefully chosen strategies for exploring challenging issues with students, including identity, poverty, diversity, bullying, and immigration. Literary sources are at the root of this amazing book, and encompass picture books, novels, poetry, scripts, and photographs. Compelling strategies throughout the book are designed to enrich interactive possibilities amongst learners in the language arts classroom. By reading, writing, and talking both in and out of role, students can develop and share their responses, stories, and ideas. A bestselling classroom resource for almost thirty years, Dramathemes is an ideal book for teachers who want to put drama into literacy programs, and literacy into drama programs.

Author : Katrin Sieg
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472055104

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Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum by Katrin Sieg Pdf

How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?

Author : Geraldo U. de Sousa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641906784

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Shakespeare's Cross-cultural Encounters by Geraldo U. de Sousa Pdf