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"Mouths on fire with songs" : negotiating multi-ethnic identities on the contemporary North American stage /

This book, the first cross-cultural study of post-1970s anglophone Canadian and American multi-ethnic drama, invites assessment of the thematic and aesthetic contributions of this theater in today's globalized culture. A growing number of playwrights of African, South and East Asian, and First...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De Wagter, Caroline (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 163.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book, the first cross-cultural study of post-1970s anglophone Canadian and American multi-ethnic drama, invites assessment of the thematic and aesthetic contributions of this theater in today's globalized culture. A growing number of playwrights of African, South and East Asian, and First Nations heritage have engaged with manifold socio-political and aesthetic issues in experimental works combining formal features of more classical European dramatic traditions with such elements of ethnic culture as ancestral music and dance, to interrogate the very concepts of theatricality and canonici.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (lxvii, 356 pages .)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789401209540
9401209545
ISSN:0924-1426 ;