Theatres in the round
Subtitle: multi-ethnic, indigenous, and intertextual dialogues in drama
By: edited by Dorothy Figueira and Marc Maufort, with the assistance of Sylvie Vranckx
Series: Dramaturgies -- no. 28
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9789052016900
Subjects: Intertextuality; Theater; History and criticism; Cross-cultural studies; Drama; Theater and globalization; Literature and globalization; History
Other titles: Theaters in the round
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Theatres in the round: new perspectives on comparative drama / Dorothy Figueira and Marc Maufort; title: Thoughts on the origin of Nordic drama / Steven Sondrup; title: "Uncomfortable truths about contemporary Britain": black and South Asian theatre in the U.K. / Geoffrey V. Davis; title: Land and cultural memory: Djanet Sears's The adventures of a black girl in search of God and Diane Glancy's Jump kiss: an Indian legend / Caroline De Wagter; title: The high stakes of mixed race: post-race, post-apartheid performance in the U.S. and South Africa / Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Michele Elam; title: Celebrating indigeneity: contemporary aboriginal playwriting in Canada and Australasia / Marc Maufort; title: Quoting the "other": intertextuality and indigeneity in Pacific theatre / David O'Donnell; title: Beckett's Chinese progeny: absurdity, waiting, and the Godot motif in contemporary China / Rossella Ferrari; title: A punk-rock Elektra: Ruth Margraff's The Elektra fugues / Kathleen L. Komar; title: Peter Olov Enquist's and Racine's Phaedra / Ross Shideler; title: Theories of myth and myths of theory in Thomas Mann and Girish Karnad / Dorothy Figueira; title: Soyinka [Euripides, Nietzsche] Thomas Mann: intertextual dialogues across the twentieth century / John Burt Foster.