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- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xvi, 274 pages) :) : color illustrations.
- Summary
- In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a representative global city in this multicultural country--stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins with a theoretical introduction to theatrical interculturalism. Subsequent chapters outline the historical and political context within which intercultural performance takes place; examine the ways in which Indigenous, Filipino, and Afro-Caribbean Canadian theater has developed play structures based on culturally specific forms of expression; and explore the ways that intercultural companies have used intermediality, modernist form, and intercultural discourse to mediate across cultures. Performing the Intercultural City will appeal to scholars, artists, and the theater-going public, including those in theater and performance studies, urban studies, critical multiculturalism studies, diaspora studies, critical cosmopolitanism studies, critical race theory, and cultural studies.
- Series Statement
- Theater: theory/text/performance
- Uniform Title
- Performing the Intercultural City (Online)
- Theater--theory/text/performance.
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- Alternative Title
- Performing the Intercultural City (Online)
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- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-260) and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction -- part one. Contexts -- Multicultural text, intercultural performance -- Performing intercultural memory in the diasporic present -- part two. Dramaturgies -- Toward a Filipino Canadian dramaturgy : the Carlos Bulosan Collective -- Indigenous knowledge, contemporary performance : dramaturgies of decolonization -- To be dub, female, and black : toward a womban-centred Afro-Caribbean diasporic performance aesthetic -- part three. Mediations -- The modern in modern times -- The intermedial intercultural and the limits of empathy : Aluna Theatre's Nohayquiensepa / with Jessica Riley -- Cahoots -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. The intercultural performance ecology of Toronto -- Appendix 2. List of artists.
- OCLC
- ssj0001875282
- Author
Knowles, Richard Paul, 1950-
- Title
Performing the Intercultural City [electronic resource] / Ric Knowles.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Theater: theory/text/performance
Theater--theory/text/performance.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-260) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Project Muse.
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Print version: 9780472053605