Research Catalog

Title

Realisms in East Asian performance / edited by Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Pauline Saltzman-Li.

Publication

• Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Saltzman-Li, Katherine
• Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Description

xii, 278 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

Existing scholarly discussions of theatrical realism have been predominantly limited to 19th-century European and Russian theater, with little attention paid to wider explorations and alternative definitions of the practice. Examining theater forms and artists from China, Japan, and Korea, Realisms in East Asian Performance brings together a group of theater historians to reconsider realism through the performing arts of East Asia. The book's contributors emphasize trans-regional conversations and activate inter-Asian dialogues on theatrical production. Tracing historical trajectories, starting from premodern periods through today, the book seeks to understand realisms' multiple origins, forms, and cultural significances, and examines their continuities, disruptions, and divergences. In its diversity of topics, geographic locations, and time periods, Realisms in East Asian Performance aims to globalize and de-center the dominant narratives surrounding realism in theater, and revise assumptions about the spectacular and theatrical forms of Asian performance. Understanding realism as a powerful representational style, chapters collectively reevaluate acts of representation on stage not just for East Asia, but for theater and performance studies more broadly.

Subject

• Theater > East Asia > History and criticism
• Performing arts > East Asia > History and criticism
• East Asian drama > History and criticism
• Realism in literature
• East Asian drama
• Performing arts
• Theater
• East Asia

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

MWEL (East Asia) 24-133

ISBN

• 9780472076420
• 0472076426
• 9780472056422
• 0472056425

LCCN

2023023701

OCLC

1372549057

Title

Realisms in East Asian performance / edited by Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Pauline Saltzman-Li.

Publisher

Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Saltzman-Li, Katherine, editor.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Other Form:

Online version: Realisms in east asian performance Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023 9780472903849 (DLC) 2023023702

Research Call Number

MWEL (East Asia) 24-133