Description |
1 online resource (200 pages) |
Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; PREFACE/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; TEN-FOOT POLE HISTORIOGRAPHY; THE PLAY REVIEW AS A MEANS OF QUERYING DIFFERENCE, OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE PERFORMATIVE; WHO IS THE HISTORICAL THEATRE HISTORIAN?; THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBADES; PART II; THE MASTER AND THE MADEMOISELLE; "PEOPLE WHO WENT TO RIDICULE REMAINED TO ADMIRE"; PROXIMITY AND THE DEMARCATION OF THE OTHER; THE PADUANOS AND THE THEATRICAL CONSTRUCTION OF CALIFORNIA'S MEXICAN PAST; HAUNTED LANDSCAPES; PART III; FROM CAMILLE TO LULU BELLE; THE MORAL TETRALOGY |
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ACTS OF TRANSFERCONSTRUCTING THE FRUITED PLAIN; THE IMMIGRANT, THE EXILE, THE REFUGEE IN WERTENBAKER'S CREDIBLE WITNESS; PUERTO RICAN STAGES; QUERYING DIFFERENCE ON THE BATTLEFIELD; NOTES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX |
Summary |
Terms such as race, ethnicity, otherness, and pluralism are becoming increasingly problematic as we grapple with issues of identity in the "post-multicultural" discursive landscape of the twenty-first century. Querying Difference in Theatre History comprises sixteen scholarly case studies in which authors tease out the limitations of contemporary discourse concerning ideas of difference in theatre history today. The essays then incorporate new approaches, theories, and critical vocabulary fo .. |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Theater -- Historiography -- Congresses
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Theater -- Historiography
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Magellsen, Scott
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ISBN |
9781443814997 |
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1443814997 |
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