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Not The Other Avant-Garde : the Transnational Foundations Of Avant-Garde Performance.

Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant-garde began primarily as a European phenomenon that in turn spread around the world. These ten original essays, especially commissioned for Not the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harding, James Martin, 1958- (Editor ), Rouse, John (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2010.
Colección:Theater--theory/text/performance.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Introduction / James M. Harding and John Rouse
  • From Cutting Edge to Rough Edges: On the Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance / James M. Harding
  • The TDR Black Theatre Issue: Refiguring the Avant-Garde / Harry J. Elam, Jr.
  • Avant-Garde and Performance Cultures in Africa / Joachim Fiebach
  • The Other Avant-Garde: The Theater of Radical Aesthetics and the Poetics and Politics of Performance in Contemporary Africa / John Conteh-Morgan
  • Avant-Garde Drama in the Middle East / Marvin Carlson
  • Made in Mexico: The Theatrical Avant-Garde and the Formation of a Nation / Adam VersényiAesthetics, Politics, and Vanguardias in Twentieth-Century Argentinean Theater / Jean Graham-Jones
  • From Vanguard to Avant-Garde? Questioning the Progressive Bengali Theater of Kolkata / Sudipto Chatterjee
  • From Liminality to Ideology: The Politics of Embodiment in Prewar Avant-garde Theater in Japan / Peter Eckersall
  • Angura: Japan's Nostalgic Avant-Garde / David G. Goodman
  • Border Crossings: Three Transnationalisms of Fluxus / Hannah Higgins
  • Contributors
  • Index