| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) |
| Series |
Dramaturgies ; no. 28 |
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Dramaturgies ; no. 28.
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| Contents |
Theatres in the round: new perspectives on comparative drama / Dorothy Figueira and Marc Maufort -- Thoughts on the origin of Nordic drama / Steven Sondrup -- "Uncomfortable truths about contemporary Britain": black and South Asian theatre in the U.K. / Geoffrey V. Davis -- Land and cultural memory: Djanet Sears's The adventures of a black girl in search of God and Diane Glancy's Jump kiss: an Indian legend / Caroline De Wagter -- The high stakes of mixed race: post-race, post-apartheid performance in the U.S. and South Africa / Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Michele Elam -- Celebrating indigeneity: contemporary aboriginal playwriting in Canada and Australasia / Marc Maufort -- Quoting the "other": intertextuality and indigeneity in Pacific theatre / David O'Donnell -- Beckett's Chinese progeny: absurdity, waiting, and the Godot motif in contemporary China / Rossella Ferrari -- A punk-rock Elektra: Ruth Margraff's The Elektra fugues / Kathleen L. Komar -- Peter Olov Enquist's and Racine's Phaedra / Ross Shideler -- Theories of myth and myths of theory in Thomas Mann and Girish Karnad / Dorothy Figueira -- Soyinka [Euripides, Nietzsche] Thomas Mann: intertextual dialogues across the twentieth century / John Burt Foster |
| Summary |
This collection of essays explores some of the avenues along which the field of comparative drama studies could be reconfigured at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It offers a comparative analysis of theatre across national and linguistic boundaries while simultaneously acknowledging newer trends in ethnic studies. Indeed, the contributors to this critical anthology productively combine traditional comparative literature methodologies with performance approaches and postcolonial perspectives. In this way, they shed new light on the intertextual, multi-ethnic, and cross-cultural dialogues linking theatrical traditions from Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific region. This book's broad scope bears testimony to the fact that transnational studies can fruitfully illuminate the multiple dramatic voices of our increasingly globalized age |
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"[T]he volume is exquisitely executed and a very stimulating read, in particular as it offers glimpses of so many different literatures. But glimpses they do not stay as none of the articles included in the collection can possibly be called superficial. All of them are broad ranging, comprehensive and intriguing, something that cannot be said about that many collections of essays." (Michael Heinze, theaterforschung.de) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater -- History -- 20th century.
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Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Theater -- Cross-cultural studies
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Drama -- 20th century -- Cross-cultural studies
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Intertextuality.
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Theater and globalization -- History -- 20th century
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Literature and globalization -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
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Drama
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Intertextuality
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Literature and globalization
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Theater
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Theater and globalization
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Drama
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Dialog
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Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
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Indigenes Volk
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Interkulturalität
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Cross-cultural studies
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Figueira, Dorothy Matilda, 1955-
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Maufort, Marc
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Vranckx, Sylvie
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| ISBN |
9783035260434 |
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3035260435 |
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