National performance : representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion /

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In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ne...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hurley, Erin, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010
Series:Cultural spaces.
Subjects:
Theater audiences > Québec (Province) > Psychology.
Theater and society > Québec (Province)
Performing arts > Social aspects > Québec (Province)
Performing arts > Audiences > Québec (Province)
Nationalism > Québec (Province)
Théâtre et société > Québec (Province)
Arts du spectacle > Aspect social > Québec (Province)
Arts du spectacle > Publics > Québec (Province)
Nationalisme > Québec (Province)
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
Nationalism
Performing arts > Audiences
Performing arts > Social aspects
Theater and society
Theater audiences > Psychology
Québec
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Marginals, metaphors, and mimesis
  • National construction : Quebec's modernity at Expo 67
  • National reflection : Michel Tremblay's Les belles-soeurs and le nouvesu théâtre québécois
  • National simulation : Marco Micone's culture imigrée
  • National metonymy : arresting images in the devised works of Carbone 14
  • Naional affection : Céline Dion
  • Conclusion : feminist (re)production.

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