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Performance, exile and 'America' / edited by Silvija Jestrovic and Yana Meerzon.
Series: Studies in international performancePublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: xiii, 266 p. : ill., 1 map, ports ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780230574564 :
- 0230574564 :
- American drama -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
- Exiles in literature
- United States -- In literature
- Immigrants in literature
- Emigration and immigration in literature
- Other (Philosophy) in literature
- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Transnationalism in literature
- Minorities -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Theater and society -- United States -- 21st century
- PS153.M56 P47 2009
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Summary: "This collection of essays investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place, investigating how 'America' and exile are imagined, challenged and theatricalized in the works of various theatre artists in the light of the current political climate in the USA"--Provided by publisher.
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"This collection of essays investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place, investigating how 'America' and exile are imagined, challenged and theatricalized in the works of various theatre artists in the light of the current political climate in the USA"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Framing "America" : Between Exilic Imaginary and Exilic Collective / Silvija Jestrovic & Yana Meerzon -- "AMERICA" BETWEEN THE EXILIC IMAGINARY AND THE EXILIC COLLECTIVE. Land of Air-conditioning and Opportunity : America on the Irish Stage / Elizabeth Fitzpatrick -- Ninety Miles Away : Exile and Identity in Recent Cuban-American Dramas / Yael Prizant -- An American Mile in Others' Shoes : The Tragicomedy of Immigrating to the 21st Century U.S. / Diana Manole -- The American Landscape Reconsidered : On Theatricality of Urban America in the Russian Émigré Writings, with the special focus on Vasily Aksyonov's works / Yana Meerzon -- AMERICAN PERFORMATIVITY. Theatres in America: Brecht and Kafka / Freddie Rokem -- America Relocated : Karel Čapek's Robots between Prague, Berlin and New York / Veronika Ambros -- At Home in Exile : Finding America in Casablanca and Camino Real / Alan Ackerman -- AMERICA AND THE OTHER : FROM REPRESENTATION TO INTERVENTION. De-Territorializing Voices : Staging the Middle East in American Theatre / Erith Jaffe-Berg -- Current Trends in Arab-American Performance / Dalia Basiouny and Marvin Carlson -- Bombing (on) the Border : Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil as Transnational Agitprop / Jerry Wasserman -- Exiles and the City : Krzysztof Wodiczko's New York Interventions of Making the Familiar Strange / Silvija Jestrovic.
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