Scripting the nation -- Conditions of production -- Return of the 'native': The cord -- Disrupting the culture of silence: 1984 here and now -- Complicity and subversion: Emily of Emerald Hill -- Competing subjectivities: The coffin is too big for the hole -- Conclusion: playful strategies
Summary
"Staging Nation examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation building in postcolonial Malaysia and Singapore. In less than fifty years, locally written and produced English language theatre has managed to shrug off its colonial shackles to become an important site of community expression. This comparative study discusses the role of creative writing and the act of performance as actual political acts and as interventions in national self-constructions."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index
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