| Description |
1 online resource (lxvii, 356 pages .) |
| Series |
Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English, 0924-1426 ; 163 |
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Cross/cultures ; 163
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Staging Hybridity on the North American Scene; 2 Shattering the North American Dream:Testimonies and Experiences; 3 Cultural Memory in North American Drama; 4 Performing Imagined Communities; Conclusion: Millennial Vistas; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
This book, the first cross-cultural study of post-1970s anglophone Canadian and American multi-ethnic drama, invites assessment of the thematic and aesthetic contributions of this theater in today's globalized culture. A growing number of playwrights of African, South and East Asian, and First Nations heritage have engaged with manifold socio-political and aesthetic issues in experimental works combining formal features of more classical European dramatic traditions with such elements of ethnic culture as ancestral music and dance, to interrogate the very concepts of theatricality and canonici |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Multiculturalism in literature.
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Canadian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American drama
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Canadian drama
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Multiculturalism in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401209540 |
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9401209545 |
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