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1 online resource (333 p.) |
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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Troubling Traditions -- We See You, White Eurocentric Canon -- Holy Canons -- Why this Book Now? -- Mapping the Conversation -- Costs, Remixes, Approaches, and Departures -- We Believe In You, Future of US Theatre -- Toward a Future -- Works Cited -- Part I: Costs of Canonicity -- 1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies -- Disciplining -- The Important and The Persuasive -- Final Thoughts: Undead White Men -- Works Cited |
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2. The Shakespeare Problem: A Conversation -- How do you Identify in the World, and What is your Relationship to the Work of William Shakespeare? -- How do you see Shakespeare's Work Operating Systemically up until this Point within Society? -- What do you think the Role of Shakespeare should be Within Theatre Training and the Field in General? -- How would you Train Theatre Makers? What do you see as Most Important to that Training? -- If it is to be Taught, How Would you Teach Shakespeare? -- Works Cited |
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3. ""Go back to India if you hate my people so much"": Consequences of Troubling the ""Canon"" in American Academia -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4. Despite the Flames: A Conversation -- Methodology, or Why We Could Not Help but Make Such a Mess of a Straightforward Question About the US Theatrical Canon -- Where We are from and Why it Matters (or, Why We All Ended Up Talking About Land, Place, and Space to Talk About Theatre) -- On Why Home is a Four-Letter Word: -- Why Race Matters, Why Class Matters, but Mostly Why Race and Class Matter |
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On Why We Hate Capitalism (and Why We Hate NAFTA Specifically) -- Aesthetics, or Reading Things We Were not Supposed to Know About -- The Canon, or Why When We Try to Talk About Aesthetics We Talk About Politics and Vice-Versa -- We See You White American Theatre, or How to Self-Deport from the Regional Theatre -- Where We Find Our Homes Now, or Some Kind of Happy Ending -- A Coda, from Virginia Grise's Your Healing is Killing Me () -- Works Cited -- 5. The Black Gaze/A Different Account -- I The Black Gaze -- II A Different Account -- Works Cited -- 6. Amidst the Rubble of the Ivory Tower |
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Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II: Remixing Traditions -- 7. Shaking up the Canon with Cornerstone and OSF -- A. Navigating Canonical Rules with Hamlet and Oklahoma! -- Variations on a Sanskrit Classic -- B. Variations on Canonical Hauntings: Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella: A polyvocal fugue in three columns -- C. Can(n)ons -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8. ""Yo, Let's Steal Their Canons!"": Arab and Arab American Canonical Multiplicities -- Introduction -- Identity -- Geography and Periodization -- Authorship -- Critical Intervention -- Function -- Conclusion -- Works Cited |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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9. Your Heritage is Safe Here: Defining Three Indigenous Theatrical Canons |
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American drama -- History and criticism
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Theater -- United States -- History
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Canon (Literature) -- History and criticism
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American drama
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Canon (Literature)
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Theater
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United States
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Moore, Matthew
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Schiller, Angela Farr
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| ISBN |
9781000486384 |
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1000486389 |
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