1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827277103321

Titolo

Querying difference in theatre history / / edited by Scott Magelssen and Ann Haugo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-282-41417-8

9786612414176

1-4438-1499-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MagelssenScott

HaugoAnn

Disciplina

792.09

Soggetti

Theater - Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Essays presented at the Theatre History Symposium, held during the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Chicago, March 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Historiography -- pt. II. Performance and cultural exchange -- pt. III. Imagined communities and the performance of cultural identity.

Sommario/riassunto

Terms such as race, ethnicity, otherness, and pluralism are becoming increasingly problematic as we grapple with issues of identity in the "post-multicultural" discursive landscape of the twenty-first century. Querying Difference in Theatre History comprises sixteen scholarly case studies in which authors tease out the limitations of contemporary discourse concerning ideas of difference in theatre history today. The essays then incorporate new approaches, theories, and critical vocabulary fo...