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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779940303321

Autore

Holledge Julie <1950, >

Titolo

Women's intercultural performance / / Julie Holledge and Joanne Tompkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-68877-6

1-280-32679-4

0-203-13665-9

0-203-17189-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TompkinsJoanne <1961->

Disciplina

305.42

791/.082

Soggetti

Intercultural communication

Rites and ceremonies

Women in the performing arts

Literature - General

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: culture, feminism, theatre; Narrative trajectories: A Doll's House and Antigone; Ritual translocations: Kim Kum hwa and Warlpiri women; Layering space: staging and remembering 'home'; Intercultural bodies: meetings in the flesh; Intercultural markets: the female body and censorship; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world. Contemporary feminist performance is explored in the contexts of current intercultural practices, theories and debates. Holledge and Tompkins provide ways of thinking about and analysing contemporary performance and representations of the performing, female, culturally-marked body. The book includes discussions of: * ritual performance by women from Central Australia and Korea * the cultural exchange of A Doll's House



and Antigone * plays from Algeria, S