Research Catalog

Title

Dramaturgy of migration : staging multilingual encounters in contemporary theatre / edited by Yana Meerzon and Katharina Pewny.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Meerzon, Yana
• Pewny, Katharina

Description

xii, 145 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multilingual Encounters in Contemporary Theatre examines the function of dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg in making a theatre performance situated at the crossroads of multiple theatre forms and performative devices.

Series Statement

[Focus on dramaturgy]

Subject

• Drama > Technique
• Multilingual communication
• Theater > Production and direction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Dramaturgies of self: language, authorship, migration / Yana Meerzon and Katharina Pewny -- 1. Suppliant guests: Hikesia and the aporia of asylum / Christopher Balme -- 2. We are who we are not: Language, exile, and nostalgia for the self / Dragan Todorovic -- Part I. On migration and self-translation : 3. Playing and writing across languages and cultures / Ana Candida Carneiro -- 4. Acting as the act of translation: Domesticating and foreignising strategies as part of the actor's performance in the Irish-Polish production of Bubble Revolution / Kasia Lech -- 5. Heteroglossia in theatre of engagement: The case of Khasakkinte Ithihasam / Ameet Parameswaran -- 6. On multiple identities and the glue that holds us together / Margareta Sörenson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri -- Part II. On inter-and intra-multilingualism of migration : 7. On multilinguality, decolonisation and postmigrant theatre / a conversation between Azadeh Sharifi and Laura Peatau -- 8. Representing the migrant body and performing displacement: contemporary Indian feminist interventionist ecology / Indu Jain -- 9. Multilingual dramaturgy and staging relevant translation in Singapore / Alvin Eng Hui Lim -- Part III. On dramaturgy of globalised, transnational, and cosmopolitan encounters : 10. I am a war, my voice is a weapon: Language as identity in monodramas in South African youth / Judith Rudakoff -- 11. From Chinese local history to another memory: An interview with Folk Memory Project on their workshop with African refugees / Sun Weiwei -- 12. Migration and the performance of colonial obscenity: Jean-Luc Raharimanana's construction of a threatre poetics / Alvina Ruprecht -- 13. Resisting the monolingual lens: Queer phenomenology and stage multilingualism / Art Babayants.

Call Number

MWET 20-66

ISBN

• 9781138576285
• 113857628X
• 9781351270267 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019028894

OCLC

1119067372

Title

Dramaturgy of migration : staging multilingual encounters in contemporary theatre / edited by Yana Meerzon and Katharina Pewny.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

[Focus on dramaturgy]

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Meerzon, Yana, editor, contributor.

Pewny, Katharina, editor, contributor.

Research Call Number

MWET 20-66