Theatre After Empire (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: E. Geigner, Megan; Young, Harvey

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Emphasizing the resilience of theatre arts in the midst of significant political change, Theatre After Empire spotlights the emergence of new performance styles in the wake of collapsed political systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429768507
• Artikelnr.: 61429870

Autorenporträt

Megan E. Geigner is an assistant professor of instruction in the Cook Family Writing Program at Northwestern University. She researches the performance of racial, ethnic, and national identity. She is co-editor of Makeshift Chicago Stages: A Century of Theater and Performance. Harvey Young is Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. His books include Embodying Black Experience and Performance in the Borderlands .

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Megan E. Geigner and Harvey Young; 1. Dr. See-Through and His
Kin: East African Theatre in the Interregnum Joshua Williams; 2. Between
Empire and Dictatorship: The Decolonial Dreams of Raúl Leis Katherine A.
Zien; 3. Absurdist Theatre Goes Postcolonial: Trans-Contextuality, Absurd
Jokes, and Evocation in (Post)Colonial Plays Mina Kyounghye Kwon; 4.
History Plays: Performing the Anti-Apartheid Movement on Contemporary South
African Stages Gibson Alessandro Cima; 5. Brendan Brehan's Depictions of
Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Failure Eleanor Owicki and Megan E. Geigner;
6. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Development of Western Turkish Theatre
and the Pursuit of Identity Elif Bä; 7. Towards a New African Personality:
The National Theatre Movement of Ghana from Nkrumah to Rawlings David
Afriyie Donkor; 8. Rediscovering Tradition in Modern Asian Theatre Siyuan
Liu; 9. The Empire Lingers: Staging Zainichi Korean Lived Experiences in
Contemporary Japan Jessica Nakamura; 10. Toward a Third Performance: Dance,
Exile, and Anti-Imperialism in Fernando Solanas' Tangos: El exilio de
Gardel Victoria Fortuna; 11. Bollywood Effects: Feeling Brown with Meena
Kumari Kareem Khubchandani; 12. Sounding Asian American: Geeks and
Superheroes in Qui Nguyen's Vietgone Esther Kim Lee