National Performance : Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine 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
Main Author: Hurley, Erin, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2010
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theater audiences > Psychology.
Theater and society.
Performing arts > Social aspects.
Performing arts > Audiences.
Nationalism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
Nationalisme > Quebec (Province)
Arts du spectacle > Publics > Quebec (Province)
Arts du spectacle > Aspect social > Quebec (Province)
Theâtre et societe > Quebec (Province)
Nationalism > Quebec (Province)
Performing arts > Audiences > Quebec (Province)
Performing arts > Social aspects > Quebec (Province)
Theater and society > Quebec (Province)
Theater audiences > Quebec (Province) > Psychology.
Quebec.
Electronic books.
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 theâtre quebecois
  • National simulation : Marco Micone's culture imigree
  • National metonymy : arresting images in the devised works of Carbone 14
  • Naional affection : Celine Dion
  • Conclusion : feminist (re)production.

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