LEADER 03587nam 2200613 450 001 9910807970803321 005 20230803021731.0 010 $a94-012-0954-5 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401209540 035 $a(CKB)2550000001118715 035 $a(EBL)1402867 035 $a(OCoLC)858764925 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001164266 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11652088 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001164266 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11181452 035 $a(PQKB)11161993 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1402867 035 $a(OCoLC)861506615 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401209540 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1402867 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10764744 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL519188 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001118715 100 $a20131009d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a"Mouths on fire with songs" $enegotiating multi-ethnic identities on the contemporary North American stage /$fCaroline De Wagter 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cRodopi,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (420 p.) 225 1 $aCross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ;$v163 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3696-6 311 $a1-299-87937-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Staging Hybridity on the North American Scene -- Shattering the North American Dream: Testimonies and Experiences -- Cultural Memory in North American Drama -- Performing Imagined Communities -- Millennial Vistas -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aThis book, the first cross-cultural study of post-1970s anglophone Canadian and American multi-ethnic drama, invites assessment of the thematic and aesthetic contributions of this theater in today?s globalized culture. A growing number of playwrights of African, South and East Asian, and First Nations heritage have engaged with manifold socio-political and aesthetic issues in experimental works combining formal features of more classical European dramatic traditions with such elements of ethnic culture as ancestral music and dance, to interrogate the very concepts of theatricality and canonicity. Their ?mouths on fire? (August Wilson), these playwrights contest stereotyped notions of authenticity. InŽspired by songs of anger, passion, experience, survival, and regeneration, the plays analyzed bespeak a burning desire to break the silence, to heal and empower. Foregrounding questions of hybridity, diaspora, cultural memory, and nation, this comparative study includes discussion of some twenty-five case studies of plays by such authors as M.J. Kang, August Wilson, Suzan?Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Chay Yew, Padma Viswanathan, Rana Bose, Diane Glancy, and Drew Hayden Taylor. Through its cross-cultural and cross-national prism, ?Mouths on Fire with Songs? shows that multi-ethnic drama is one of the most diverse and dynamic sites of cultural production in North America today. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v163. 606 $aMulticulturalism in literature 606 $aMulticulturalism in the theater 615 0$aMulticulturalism in literature. 615 0$aMulticulturalism in the theater. 676 $a810.992 700 $aDe Wagter$b Caroline$01700026 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807970803321 996 $a"Mouths on fire with songs"$94082707 997 $aUNINA