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Transgressive Itineraries

Marc Maufort
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Author : Marc Maufort
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9052011788

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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.

Celebrating Transgression

Ursula Rao,John Hutnyk
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Author : Ursula Rao,John Hutnyk
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845450256

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9. Between meaning and significance: reflections on ritual and mimesis / Alexander Henn -- 10. Animism on stage: tracing anthropology's heritage in contemporary African dance in Europe / Nadine Sieveking -- 11. Transgression and the erotic / Vincent Crapanzano -- 12. Michael Leiris: master of the ethnographic failure / Peter Phipps -- 13. Boundary confusion in anthropology and art: Pablo Picasso and Michael Leiris / Klaus Peter Buchheit -- 14. The concatenation of minds / Klaus Peter Buchheit -- 15. Transgressions of fieldwork/filed works: method in madness / John Hutnyk.

Labyrinth of Hybridities

Marc Maufort
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Author : Marc Maufort
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9052010331

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Taking its cue from Eugene O'Neill's questioning of «faithful realism», voiced by Edmund Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night, this book examines the distant legacy of the Irish American playwright in contemporary multiethnic drama in the U.S. It explores the labyrinth of formal devices through which African American, Latina/o, First Nations, and Asian American dramatists have unconsciously reinterpreted O'Neill's questioning of mimesis. In their works, hybridizations of stage realism function as aesthetic celebrations of the spiritual potentialities of cultural in-betweenness. This volume provides detailed analyses of over forty plays authored by such key artists as August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, José Rivera, Cherríe Moraga, Hanay Geiogamah, Diane Glancy, David Henry Hwang, and Chay Yew, to give only a few prominent examples. All in all, Labyrinth of Hybridities invites its readers to reassess the cross-cultural patterns characterizing the history of twentieth century American drama.

Indigenous North American Drama

Birgit Däwes
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Author : Birgit Däwes
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438446615

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Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.

Speaking in Tongues

Marvin Carlson
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Author : Marvin Carlson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472033928

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divExplores the political, social, and historical implications of staged language /DIV

Antipodean Childhoods

Helga Ramsey-Kurz,Ulla Ratheiser
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Author : Helga Ramsey-Kurz,Ulla Ratheiser
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527551244

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Though obvious, the productiveness of combining the three concepts of childhood, otherness and the postcolonial has not inspired much academic inquiry so far. The essays assembled in this book make up for this omission and address aspects of growing up in Australia and New Zealand from various angles. They base their argument on the premise that, whether in settler, migrant or indigenous communities, children tend to be ascribed a space of their own, mostly outside but never independent of that of adults. How adults configure this space both practically and imaginatively, for instance in the arts, in adult and children’s literature, in film and photography, or in historical documents, is one of the questions answered in the process. How these configurations have developed with time and under the influence of specific historical circumstances is another. Thus, the individual papers are more than a contribution to the current (re-)discovery of the theme of childhood in European cultures in that Antipodean Childhoods remains centrally concerned with the cultural specificity of childhoods lived in Australia and New Zealand and with the theoretical relevance of this specificity to postcolonial literary, cultural and historical studies.

The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race

Tiziana Morosetti,Osita Okagbue
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Author : Tiziana Morosetti,Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030439576

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The first comprehensive publication on the subject, this book investigates interactions between racial thinking and the stage in the modern and contemporary world, with 25 essays on case studies that will shed light on areas previously neglected by criticism while providing fresh perspectives on already-investigated contexts. Examining performances from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacifi c islands, this collection ultimately frames the history of racial narratives on stage in a global context, resetting understandings of race in public discourse.

“Mouths on Fire with Songs”.

Caroline De Wagter
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Author : Caroline De Wagter
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789401209540

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This book, the first cross-cultural study of post-1970s anglophone Canadian and American multi-ethnic drama, invites assessment of the thematic and aesthetic contributions of this theater in today’s globalized culture. A growing number of playwrights of African, South and East Asian, and First Nations heritage have engaged with manifold socio-political and aesthetic issues in experimental works combining formal features of more classical European dramatic traditions with such elements of ethnic culture as ancestral music and dance, to interrogate the very concepts of theatricality and canonicity. Their “mouths on fire” (August Wilson), these playwrights contest stereotyped notions of authenticity. In¬spired by songs of anger, passion, experience, survival, and regeneration, the plays analyzed bespeak a burning desire to break the silence, to heal and empower. Foregrounding questions of hybridity, diaspora, cultural memory, and nation, this comparative study includes discussion of some twenty-five case studies of plays by such authors as M.J. Kang, August Wilson, Suzan–Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Chay Yew, Padma Viswanathan, Rana Bose, Diane Glancy, and Drew Hayden Taylor. Through its cross-cultural and cross-national prism, “Mouths on Fire with Songs” shows that multi-ethnic drama is one of the most diverse and dynamic sites of cultural production in North America today.

Engaging with Literature of Commitment. Volume 2

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401207850

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This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... The volume opens with essays on cultural theory and practice, proceeds to close analyses of ‘settler colony’ texts from Canada, India, Australia, and New Zealand (drama, fiction, and poetry) as well as Pacific drama and Canadian indigeneity, thence ‘homeward’ to the UK (black drama, Scottish fiction, the music of Morrissey) and to German themes (exile literature; fictions about Hitler). Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and experimental prose. Writers discussed include Carmen Aguirre, Hany Abu-Assad, Beryl Bainbridge, Albert Belz, Peter Bland, Peter Carey, Lynda Chanwai–Earle, Kamala Das, Robert Drewe, Éric Emmanuel–Schmitt, Toa Fraser, Stephen Fry, Dianna Fuemana, Mavis Gallant, Alasdair Gray, Xavier Her¬bert, Janette Turner Hospital, Elizabeth Jolley, Wendy Lill, Varanasi Nagalakshmi, Arundhati Roy, Daniel Sloate, Drew Hayden Taylor, Jane Urquhart, Roy Williams, and Arnold Zweig.

Reading Without Maps?

Den Tandt Christophe (ed.)
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Author : Den Tandt Christophe (ed.)
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9052012830

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Among the intellectual debates of the last forty years, the critique of cultural canons has attracted the highest share of public attention, stirring academic, educational, and media controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Postmodernism, feminism, postcolonialism, and multiculturalism have refashioned the attitudes of educators and audiences towards cultural memory, opening up curricula to subjects and traditions previously excluded from the humanities. Predictably, these new critical practices have triggered heated responses from commentators fearing that culture and education might thereby be deprived of their capacity to provide audiences and learners with proper groundings and landmarks. The present volume gathers contributions that throw light on multiple aspects of this reconfiguration of cultural memory. It brings together essays focusing on the dynamics of canon formation in several fields - literature, drama, film, and music. Contributors examine how writers and communities find their bearings in a cultural landscape more complex than that previously envisaged by advocates of the Great Tradition. Specifically, the present essays throw light on the status of modernist writing, drama in English, or popular genres within the new canonical topography elaborated at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Mapping the Victorian Social Body

Pamela K. Gilbert
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Author : Pamela K. Gilbert
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791460266

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Tracing the development of cholera mapping from the early sanitary period to the later "medical" period of which John Snow's work was a key example, the book explores how maps of cholera outbreaks, residents' responses to those maps, and the novels of Charles Dickens, who drew heavily on this material, contributed to an emerging vision of London as a metropolis. The book then turns to India, the metropole's colonial other and the perceived source of the disease. In India, the book argues, imperial politics took cholera mapping in a wholly different direction and contributed to Britons' perceptions of Indian space as quite different from that of home.

Staging Strangers

Barry Freeman
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Author : Barry Freeman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773549548

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Twenty-first-century media and political discourse sometimes makes "strangers" - refugees, immigrants, minorities - the scapegoats for social and economic disorder. In this heated climate, theatre has the potential to promote greater compassion and empathy for outsiders. A study of cultural difference in contemporary Canadian theatre, Staging Strangers considers how theatre facilitates an understanding of distant places and issues. Theatre in Canada, and especially in Toronto, has long been a place for communities to celebrate their traditions, but it is now emerging as a forum for staging stories that stretch beyond the local and the national. Combining archival research and performance analysis, Barry Freeman analyzes the possibilities and hazards of representing strangers, and the many ways the stranger on stage may be fetishized or domesticated, marked for assimilation, or turned into an object of fear. A fresh look at ways to cultivate ethical responsibility for global issues, Staging Strangers imagines a role for theatre in creating a more tolerant, caring, and cooperative world.

Performing Aotearoa

Marc Maufort,David O'Donnell (MA.)
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Author : Marc Maufort,David O'Donnell (MA.)
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9052013594

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"This ... volume comprises a wide range of chapters focusing on key figures in the development of New Zealand theatre and drama, such as, among others, Robert Lord, Ken Duncum, Gary Henderson, Stephen Sinclair, Hone Kouka, Briar-Grace Smith, Jacob Rajan, Lynda Chanwai-Earle, Nathaniel Lees, and Victor Rodger."--Publisher description.

Signatures of the Past

Marc Maufort,Caroline De Wagter
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Author : Marc Maufort,Caroline De Wagter
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 905201454X

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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.

Performance and Knowledge

G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis
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Author : G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000214987

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Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous. This final volume in the five-volume series deals with the two key concepts of performance and knowledge of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts across the globe, it looks at issues and ideas of the indigenous peoples in the context of imagination, creativity, performance, audience, arts, music, dance, oral traditions, aesthetics and beauty in North America, South America, Australia, East Asia and India from cultural, historical and aesthetic points of view. Bringing together academic insights and experiences from the ground, this unique book, with its wide coverage, will serve as a comprehensive guide for students, teachers and scholars of indigenous studies. It will be essential reading for those in social and cultural anthropology, tribal studies, sociology and social exclusion studies, cultural studies, media studies and performing arts, literary and postcolonial studies, religion and theology, politics, Third World and Global South studies, as well as activists working with indigenous communities.