Gilbert / Lo Performance and Cosmopolitics

Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia
2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-27392-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 245 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in International Performance

This ground-breaking study of cross-cultural theatre in the Australasian region focuses on theatrical events and practices in avant-garde and mainstream contexts. It explores the cultural and political dimensions of Australia's engagement with Asia and sheds light on international arts marketing and trends in cross-cultural performance training.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilbert, H.

Lo, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: Performing Cosmopolitics (Anti)Cosmopolitan Encounters Indigenizing Australian Theatre Asianizing Australian Theatre Marketing Difference at the Adelaide Festival Crossing Cultures: Case Studies Asian Australian Hybrid Praxis Performance and Asylum: Ethics, Embodiment, Efficacy Conclusion: Cosmopolitics in the New Millennium Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

HELEN GILBERT is Professor of Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and co-convenor of the College's interdisciplinary Postcolonial Research Group. Her books include Sightlines: Race, Gender and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre (1998), Post-colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics (with Joanne Tompkins, 1996) and Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology (2001). JACQUELINE LO is Reader in English and Head of the School of Humanities at the Australian National University, Australia. She is the author of Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore (2004) and Chair of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network.