Imperialism and theatre : essays on world theatre, drama, and performance /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Intercultural communication. Theater and society -- Developing countries. Theater and society. Theater -- Political aspects -- Developing countries. Theater -- Political aspects. Intercultural communication. Theater and society. Theater -- Political aspects. Developing countries.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11175303

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Varying Form of Title:	Imperialism and theater
Other authors / contributors:	Gainor, J. Ellen.
ISBN:	0203359941 9780203359945 9786610054268 6610054266 9781134844319 113484431X 9781134844265 1134844263 9781134844302 1134844301 0203376706 9780203376706 1280054263 9781280054266 9780415106405 0415106400 9780415106412 0415106419 0415106400 0415106419
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Imperialism is a transnational and transhistorical phenomenon; it occurs neither in limited areas nor at one specific moment. In cultures from across the world theatrical performance has long been a site for both the representation and support of imperialism, and resistance and rebellion against it. Imperialism and Theatre is a groundbreaking collection which explores the questions of why and how the theatre was selected within imperial cultures for the representation of the concerns of both the colonizers and the colonized. Gathering together fifteen noted scholars and theatre practi.
Other form:	Print version: Imperialism and theatre. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 0415106400
Standard no.:	2284328

Table of Contents:

Vietnamese theatre of resistance: Thich Nhat Hanh's metaphysical sortie on the margins / N.M. Alter
Mise-en-(colonial- )scène: the theatre of the Bengal Renaissance / S. Chatterjee
Postcolonial british theatre: black voices at the center / M.K. Dahl
Erect sons and dutiful daughters: imperialism, empires and Canadian theatre / A. Filewod
Contemporary Mayan theatre and ethnic conflict: the recovery and (re)interpretation of history / D.H. Frischmann
Electric salome: Loie Fuller at the exposition universelle of 1900 / R.K. Garelick
Dressed to kill: a post-colonial reading of costume and the body in Australian theatre / H. Gilbert
Representing empire: class, culture, and the popular theatre in the nineteenth century / M. Hays
"That fluctuating movement of national consciousness": protest, publicity, and postcolonial theatre in South Africa / L. Kruger
Linguistic imperialism, the early Abbey Theatre, and the translations of Brian Friel / J. Lee
Decolonizing the theatre: Césaire, Serreau and the drama of Negritude / R.E. Livingston
Intercultural performance, theatre anthropology, and the imperialist critique: identities, inheritances, and neo-orthodoxies / J.S. Peters
Satellite drama: imperialism, Slovakia and the case of Peter Karvas / M. Quinn
On Jean Genet's late works / E.W. Said
Strategies for survival: anti-imperialist theatrical forms in the Anglophone Caribbean / E. Savory.

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