| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in international performance |
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Studies in international performance.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Framing 'America': Between Exilic Imaginary and Exilic Collective / S. Jestrovic & Y. Meerzon -- 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' : 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 -- Theatres in America: Brecht and Kafka / F. Rokem -- America Relocated : Karel Capek's Robots between Prague, Berlin and New York / V. Ambros -- At Home in Exile: Finding America in Casablanca and Camino Real / A. Ackerman -- 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 |
| Summary |
This collection of essays investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place particularly focusing on issues of language, space, and identity. It explores the idea of 'America' from metaphoric to physical space of exile and ways in which it has been shaped and transformed through exilic experiences, visions, and performances, but also in the light of the current political climate in the US. It aims to address the problems of representation of the Other on stage and to investigate how 'America' and exile are imagined, challenged, and theatricalized in the works of various theatre artists. This collection offers a twofold perceptive - 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater -- United States -- History
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Immigrants in literature.
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Immigrants in literature
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Literature
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Theater
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Kulturwissenschaften
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- In literature
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jestrovic, Silvija, 1970-
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Meerzon, Yana.
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| ISBN |
9780230250703 |
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023025070X |
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1349365351 |
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9781349365357 |
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