Staging nationalism
Subtitle: essays on theatre and national identity
By: edited by Kiki Gounaridou.
Contributors: Gounaridou, Kiki.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Theater and state; Nationalism
Description: "When a nation wants to reconnect with a sense of national identity, its cultural celebrations, including its theatre, are often tinged with nostalgia for a cultural high point in its history. Leaders often try to create a "neo-classical" cultural identity. This collection of essays discusses the relationship between political power and the construction or subversion of cultural identity"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theatre and nationalism / Kiki Gounaridou; title: Reconstructing the nation / Natalya Baldyga; title: Celebrating the revolution while the king is still on the throne / Scott Magelssen; title: Athenian prologue to an American theatre / Gary Jay Williams; title: Herder and European theatre / S.E. Wilmer; title: Historical avant-garde performance and Japanese nationalism / David Pellegrini; title: Remembering and forgetting / Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei; title: The critical absence of Indonesia in W.S. Rendra's Village / Evan Darwin Winet, Robert Lepage, Karen Fricker; title: Staging the nation on the ruins of the past / Patricia Ybarra; title: The corpse of Algerian identity / Susan Haedicke.