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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 No...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Harding, James Martin, 1958- (Éditeur intellectuel), Rouse, John (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2006]
Collection:Theater--theory/text/performance.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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 Versényi
  • Aesthetics, 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 pre-war avant-garde theater in Japan / Peter Eckersall
  • Angura : Japan's nostalgic avant-garde / David G. Goodman
  • Border crossings : three transnationalisms of fluxus / Hannah Higgins.