| Description |
xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / J. Ellen Gainor -- 1. Vietnamese Theatre of Resistance: Thich Nhat Hanh's Metaphysical Sortie on the Margins / Nora M. Alter -- 2. Mise-En-(Colonial-)Scene: The Theatre of the Bengal Renaissance / Sudipto Chatterjee -- 3. Postcolonial British Theatre: Black Voices at the Center / Mary Karen Dahl -- 4. Erect Sons and Dutiful Daughters: Imperialism, Empires and Canadian Theatre / Alan Filewod -- 5. Contemporary Mayan Theatre and Ethnic Conflict: The Recovery and (Re)Interpretation of History / Donald H. Frischmann -- 6. Electric Salome: Loie Fuller at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 / Rhonda K. Garelick -- 7. Dressed to Kill: A Post-Colonial Reading of Costume and the Body in Australian Theatre / Helen Gilbert -- 8. Representing Empire: Class, Culture, and the Popular Theatre in the Nineteenth Century / Michael Hays -- 9. "That Fluctuating Movement of National Consciousness": Protest, Publicity, and Postcolonial Theatre in South Africa / Loren Kruger |
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10. Linguistic Imperialism, the Early Abbey Theatre, and the Translations of Brian Friel / Josephine Lee -- 11. Decolonizing the Theatre: Cesaire, Serreau and the Drama of Negritude / Robert Eric Livingston -- 12. Intercultural Performance, Theatre Anthropology, and the Imperialist Critique: Identities, Inheritances, and Neo-Orthodoxies / Julie Stone Peters -- 13. Satellite Drama: Imperialism, Slovakia and the Case of Peter Karvas / Michael Quinn -- 14. On Jean Genet's Late Works / Edward W. Said -- 15. Strategies for Survival: Anti-Imperialist Theatrical Forms in the Anglophone Caribbean / Elaine Savory |
| Analysis |
Theatre |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Intercultural communication.
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Theater and society -- Developing countries.
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Theater and society.
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Theater -- Political aspects -- Developing countries.
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Theater -- Political aspects.
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| Author |
Gainor, J. Ellen.
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| LC no. |
94035439 |
| ISBN |
0415106400 (hbk.) |
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0415106419 (paperback) |
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