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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Knowles, Richard Paul, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Series:Theater--theory/text/performance.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 274 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-260) and index.
ISBN:9780472123063
0472123068