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Record Nr.

UNINA9910624386003321

Autore

Qi Shouhua

Titolo

Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China / / by Shouhua Qi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031169342

9783031169335

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 pages)

Collana

Chinese Literature and Culture in the World, , 2945-7262

Disciplina

701.1

812.54

Soggetti

Oriental literature

Comparative literature

Theater

Literature, Modern - 20th century

America - Literatures

Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Asian Literature

Comparative Literature

Global and International Theatre and Performance

Twentieth-Century Literature

North American Literature

Adaptation Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Speaking the Unspoken and the Unspeakable: Translating Tennessee Williams -- 3. From Cautious Curiosity to Deep Dive: Interpreting Tennessee Williams -- 4. Becoming Blanche Dubois: Adapting Tennessee Williams for the Chinese Stage -- 5. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profound changes in China’s socioeconomic and cultural life and mores



since the end of the Cultural Revolution. It fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship in the reception of one of the greatest American playwrights and joins book-length studies of Chinese reception of Shakespeare, Ibsen, O’Neill, Brecht, and other important Western playwrights whose works have been eagerly embraced and appropriated and have had catalytic impact on modern Chinese cultural life.