Performing the intercultural city /
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| Author / Creator: | Knowles, Richard Paul, 1950- author. |
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| Imprint: | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017] |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 274 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Theater: theory/text/performance Theater--theory/text/performance. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12681348 |
| Summary: | In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a representative global city in this multicultural country--stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins with a theoretical introduction to theatrical interculturalism. Subsequent chapters outline the historical and political context within which intercultural performance takes place; examine the ways in which Indigenous, Filipino, and Afro-Caribbean Canadian theater has developed play structures based on culturally specific forms of expression; and explore the ways that intercultural companies have used intermediality, modernist form, and intercultural discourse to mediate across cultures. Performing the Intercultural City will appeal to scholars, artists, and the theater-going public, including those in theater and performance studies, urban studies, critical multiculturalism studies, diaspora studies, critical cosmopolitanism studies, critical race theory, and cultural studies.<br> <br> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 274 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-260) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472123063 0472123068 9780472073603 9780472053605 0472073605 0472053604 |