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Title Realisms in East Asian performance / Edited by Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Pauline Saltzman-Li
Published Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, 2023
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Summary Existing scholarly discussions of theatrical realism have been predominantly limited to 19th-century European and Russian theater, with little attention paid to wider explorations and alternative definitions of the practice. Examining theater forms and artists from China, Japan, and Korea, Realisms in East Asian Performance brings together a group of theater historians to reconsider realism through the performing arts of East Asia. The book's contributors emphasize trans-regional conversations and activate inter-Asian dialogues on theatrical production. Tracing historical trajectories, starting from premodern periods through today, the book seeks to understand realisms' multiple origins, forms, and cultural significances, and examines their continuities, disruptions, and divergences. In its diversity of topics, geographic locations, and time periods, Realisms in East Asian Performance aims to globalize and de-center the dominant narratives surrounding realism in theater, and revise assumptions about the spectacular and theatrical forms of Asian performance. Understanding realism as a powerful representational style, chapters collectively reevaluate acts of representation on stage not just for East Asia, but for theater and performance studies more broadly
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Theater -- East Asia -- History and criticism
Performing arts -- East Asia -- History and criticism
East Asian drama -- History and criticism
Realism in literature.
PERFORMING ARTS / General
East Asian drama
Performing arts
Realism in literature
Theater
East Asia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Saltzman-Li, Katherine, editor
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
LC no. 2023023702
ISBN 0472903845
9780472903849