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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818767603321

Titolo

Not the other avant-garde : the transnational foundations of avant-garde performance  / / edited by James M.  Harding and John Rouse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-69569-X

9786612695698

0-472-02509-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Theater--theory/text/performance

Altri autori (Persone)

HardingJames Martin <1958->

RouseJohn

Disciplina

792.02/23

Soggetti

Experimental theater - History - 20th century

Experimental drama - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction / James M. Harding and John Rouse""; ""From Cutting Edge to Rough Edges: On the Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance / James M. Harding""; ""The TDR Black Theatre Issue: Refiguring the Avant-Garde / Harry J. Elam, Jr.""; ""Avant-Garde and Performance Cultures in Africa / Joachim Fiebach""; ""The Other Avant-Garde: The Theater of Radical Aesthetics and the Poetics and Politics of Performance in Contemporary Africa / John Conteh-Morgan""; ""Avant-Garde Drama in the Middle East / Marvin Carlson""