Performance, exile and 'America'

Performance, exile and 'America'

Jestrovic, Silvija

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This collection investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place particularly focusing on issues of language, space and identity. It looks at ways in which immigrants and outsiders are embodied in American theatre practice and explores ways in which 'America' is staged and dramatized by immigrants and foreigners. INDICE: List of illustrations - Series editors' preface - Acknowledgements- Notes on contributors - Introduction: Framing 'America': Between Exilic Imaginary and Exilic Collective; S.Jestrovic ; Y.Meerzon - PART 1: 'AMERICA' BETWEEN THE EXILIC IMAGINARY AND THE EXILIC COLLECTIVE - Land of Air-conditioning and Opportunity: America on the Irish Stage; E.Fitzpatrick - Ninety Miles Away: Exile and Identity in Recent Cuban-American Dramas; Y.Prizant - An American Mile in Others' Shoes' b The Tragicomedy of Immigrating to the 21st Century U.S.; D.Manole - The American Landscape Reconsidered. On Theatricality of Urban America in the Russian Émigré Writings, with the special focus on Vasily Aksyonov's works; Y.Meerzon - PART 2: AMERICAN PERFORMATIVITY - Theatres in America: Brecht and Kafka; F.Rokem - America Relocated b Karel Capek's Robots betweenPrague, Berlin and New York; V.Ambros - At Home in Exile: Finding America in Casablanca and Camino Real ; A.Ackerman - PART 3: AMERICA AND THE OTHER: FROM REPRESENTATION TO INTERVENTION - De-Territorializing Voices: Staging the Middle East in American Theatre; E.Jaffe-Berg - Current Trends in Arab-American Performance; D.Basiouny ; M.Carlson - Bombing (on) the Border: Ali ; Ali and the aXes of Evil as Transnational Agitprop; J.Wasserman - Exiles and the City: Krzysztof Wodiczko's New York Interventions of Making the Familiar Strange; S.Jestrovic - Index

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-57456-4
  • Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 280
  • Fecha Publicación: 22/10/2009
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés