Communities of imagination
Subtitle: contemporary Southeast Asian theatres
By: Catherine Diamond
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780824835842
Subjects: Theater
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mae Naak and Phra Ram : keeping company on the contemporary Thai stage; title: Staging the doi moi generation and the treasures of Vietnamese tradition; title: Looking within : the Balinese rwa bhineda and readjusting complementary opposites; title: Cambodia : artistic renaissance or a new culture of dependency?; title: Singapore's cosmopolitan identity and its theatrical sideshow; title: Dancing with the censors : Burmese performing arts keep time; title: The Philippine theatre's quest for a hero(ine); title: From Fa Ngoum to hip-hop boom : the faces of Lao performance; title: Durians, diversity, and fifty years of independence : Malaysian theatre stages its multiethnic heritage.