Cargando…

Performing the intercultural city /

"Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a representative global city in the first country in the world to adopt a policy of official multiculturalism--stages its diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. By examining the ways in which Indigenous, F...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knowles, Richard Paul, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Colección:Theater--theory/text/performance.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a representative global city in the first country in the world to adopt a policy of official multiculturalism--stages its diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. By examining the ways in which Indigenous, Filipino, Latino/a and Afro-Caribbean Canadian theater in Toronto has developed play structures based on culturally specific forms of expression, Performing the Intercultural City analyzes the ways in which theater companies from a variety of marginalized communities of color in Toronto have worked across cultural difference to produce a new kind of intercultural performance"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 274 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-260) and index.
ISBN:9780472123063
0472123068