Research Catalog

Title

Casting gender : women and performance in intercultural context / edited by John T. Warren & Laura Lengel.

Publication

New York : P. Lang, ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Warren, John T., 1974-2011.
• Lengel, Laura B.

Description

xii, 214 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Casting Gender puts forward a vision of theatre, storytelling, and the performance of the everyday function within the lived spaces of its performers and audiences, asking how women artists/scholars embody meaning, carry social value, and constitute possible identities. Drawing on scholarship in intercultural communication, performance studies, women's studies, and cultural studies, this collection of new, critically informed research advances our understanding of how theater works as intercultural communication and as a vehicle for change. Casting Gender offers varied locations and sites of research, highlighting the rich diversity of women's cultural identities, roles, and societal positions.
• This book moves beyond the western-centered nature of intercultural performance and intercultural communication theory and practice by creating a forum for nonwestern voices."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Critical intercultural communication studies ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Critical intercultural communication studies ; v. 7.

Alternative Title

Women and performance in intercultural context

Subject

• Fürstliches Schauspielhaus Bad Pyrmont
• Women > Identity > Cross-cultural studies
• Women in the performing arts > Cross-cultural studies
• Sex role > Cross-cultural studies
• Feminism > Cross-cultural studies
• Intercultural communication
• Communication and culture
• Performative (Philosophy)
• Communication and culture
• Feminism
• Intercultural communication
• Sex role
• Women > Identity
• Women in the performing arts
• Kulturkontakt
• Schauspielerin
• Interkulturalität
• Theater
• Gender roles

Genre/Form

• Cross-cultural studies
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: Casting Gender / Laura Lengel and John T. Warren -- 2. Theoretical Foundations and Intercultural Performance: (Re)Writing Nations on the Margins / E.J. Westlake -- 3. Native Women Playwrights: Cultural Historians, Revolutionary Healers / Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte -- 4. Fragments of Memory: Shadowboxing the Hyphen in Border Territory / Denise A. Menchaca -- 5. Maximum Intensity: Intercultural Performances of Doing Time / Jewel Seehaus-Fisher -- 6. Australia's Performing Older Women's Circus / Susan Hawthorne -- 7. A Cultural Performance of "Good" and "Bad": A Black "Hair-Story" / Leesha Marie Thrower -- 8. Breaking Frames and Burning Witches: From Local German Women to Intercultural Theatre / Alison M. Phipps -- 9. When White Girls Act Black: Reconsidering. Performances of Otherness / Elizabeth Whitney -- 10. Taking Ownership of 'Her indoors': Performativity as a Theatrical Dis-location of the British 'Housewife' / Helen Iball -- 11. Directing Performances of Border Crossing: An Allegory of Turnst(y)les / Amy K. Kilgard -- 12. Feminism and Performances in the Territory of ex-Yugoslavia / Marina Griznic -- 13. Casting into the Future / John T. Warren and Laura Lengel.

ISBN

• 0820474193
• 9780820474199

LCCN

2004011679

OCLC

• ocm55495033
• 55495033
• SCSB-1414742

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library