ISBN:
9780415722681
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (614 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures : Beyond Postcolonialism
DDC:
306.4/84
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they are dependent upon each other.While the term 'intercultural theatre' as a concept points back to postcolonialism and its contradictions, The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures explores global developments in the performing arts that cannot adequately be explained and unders
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Interweaving Performance Cultures-Rethinking 'Intercultural Theatre': Toward an Experience and Theory of Performance beyond Postcolonialism; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Strategies and Dynamics; 1. Postcolonial Modernity: Theatre in Morocco and the Interweaving Loop; The Postcolonial Turn and Double Resistance; The Interweaving Loop; Retrieving Tradition and Internal Interweaving; Rewriting the Canon and Transcultural Weaving; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
Description / Table of Contents:
2. Cultural Interweaving in Mexican Political CabaretA Brief Outline of Mexican Cabaret; Beyond Marginality and Mainstream Dichotomy; Albur, Gender, and Humor; Cabaret: An Open Genre; Albur and Cross-Dressing in Cabaret; Mexican Cabaret and Commedia Dell'Arte; Interweaving History within Cabaret; By Way of Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 3. Farewell and Welcome Back, My Concubine: Female Impersonation on the Chinese Stage; No Torchbearer of Chinese Culture; Subservience to the Patriarchal Order; Hyperbolic Encomiums; Interweaving Perspectives; The Politics of Apolitical Readings
Description / Table of Contents:
The Exemplum as the Theorem: Conspicuous OversightsRevivals of Aesthetic Forms; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Performing Orientalist, Intercultural, and Globalized Modernities: The Case of Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir by the Théâtre Du Soleil; Orientalism; Interculturalism; Globalization; New Paradigms: Interweaving Les Naufragés Du Fol Espoir; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Rituals and Festivals; 5. Oceanic Imagination, Intercultural Performance, Pacific Historiography; History, Geography, Race; Oceanic Imagination; The Culture Machines; The Joy Zone; Weaving; Returning a Thread; Conclusion; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
Bibliography6. Dancing for the Dead; The Living and the Dead; Making Memory; Making Place; Hospitality; Notes; Bibliography; 7. Un/Familiar Landscapes: Tragedy and Festivals; Introduction; Tragedy and Crisis; Europe and Crisis; Europe and Tragedy; Tradition and Festive Time; The Ambiguity of Tragedy; Un/Familiar Landscapes: A Proposition; Notes; Bibliography; 8. 'Let the Games Begin': Pageants, Protests, Indigeneity (1968-2010); Introduction; Olympic Performances, (Post)Colonial Modernities; Visibility, Voice, Multiculturalism; Reconciliation and Renewal; Conclusion/Coda; Notes; Bibliography
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III: Failures and Resistances9. Hauntings of the Intercultural: Enigmas and Lessons on the Borders of Failure; Positive Failure; Returning/Remembering/Rethinking; Limits of Metaphorical Thinking; Weaving/Stitching/Sewing; Retrieving the Aesthetics of the Postcolonial; a. Story 1: The enigma of 'slowing down'; b. Story 2: The ethics of belonging and ownership; Transformative Knowledge; Lessons on the Borders of Failure; Notes; Bibliography; 10. Strategic Unweaving: Itō Michio and the Diasporic Dancing Body; Introduction; The Traveling Body: Itō and his Contact Zones
Description / Table of Contents:
Overview of Itō Michio's Career
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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