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Performing indigenous identities on the contemporary Australian stage : land, people, culture
- Title
- Performing indigenous identities on the contemporary Australian stage : land, people, culture / Susanne Julia Thurow.
- Author
- Thurow, Susanne Julia
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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- Description
- x, 196 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Over the past 50 years, Indigenous Australian theatre practice has emerged as a dynamic site for the discursive reflection of culture and tradition as well as colonial legacies, leveraging the power of storytelling to create and advocate contemporary fluid conceptions of Indigeneity. Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage offers a window into the history and diversity of this vigorous practice. It introduces the reader to cornerstones of Indigenous Australian cultural frameworks and on this backdrop discusses a wealth of plays in light of their responses to contemporary Australian identity politics. The in-depth readings of two landmark theatre productions, Scott Rankin's Namatjira (2010) and Wesley Enoch & Anita Heiss' I Am Eora (2012), trace the artists' engagement with questions of community consolidation and national reconciliation, carefully considering the implications of their propositions for identity work arising from the translation of traditional ontologies into contemporary orientations. The analyses of the dramatic texts are incrementally enriched by a dense reflection of the production and reception contexts of the plays, providing an expanded framework for the critical consideration of contemporary postcolonial theatre practice that allows for a well-founded appreciation of the strengths yet also pointing to the limitations of current representative approaches on the Australian mainstage. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars of Postcolonial, Literary, Performance and Theatre Studies"--
- Subjects
- Theater, Aboriginal Australian
- Aboriginal Australians in literature
- Enoch, Wesley > I am Eora
- 1900-2099
- Rankin, Scott > Namatjira
- Theater, Aboriginal Australian > History > 21st century
- Australian drama > Aboriginal Australian authors > History and criticism
- Theater, Aboriginal Australian > History > 20th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- History
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Cultural and historical context -- Contemporary indigenous Australian theatre -- Case study: Scott Rankin's Namatjira (2010) -- Case study: Wesley Enoch & Anita Heiss' I am Eora (2012) -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- MWEL (Australia) 19-4021
- ISBN
- 9780367242725
- 0367242729
- 1000681483
- 9781000681482
- LCCN
- 2019025049
- 40029439736
- OCLC
- 1101774015
- Author
- Thurow, Susanne Julia, author.
- Title
- Performing indigenous identities on the contemporary Australian stage : land, people, culture / Susanne Julia Thurow.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Thurow, Susanne Julia, Performing indigenous identities on the contemporary Australian stage 1. New York : Routledge, 2019. 9780429281488 (DLC) 2019025050
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029439736
- Research Call Number
- MWEL (Australia) 19-4021