Performing the Intercultural City /

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In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a representative global city in this multicultural country--stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Knowles, Richard Paul, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Theater--theory/text/performance.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theater and society > Ontario > Toronto.
Intercultural communication in the performing arts > Ontario > Toronto.
Performing arts > Social aspects > Ontario > Toronto.
Multiculturalism in the theater > Ontario > Toronto.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • part one. Contexts
  • Multicultural text, intercultural performance
  • Performing intercultural memory in the diasporic present
  • part two. Dramaturgies
  • Toward a Filipino Canadian dramaturgy : the Carlos Bulosan Collective
  • Indigenous knowledge, contemporary performance : dramaturgies of decolonization
  • To be dub, female, and black : toward a womban-centred Afro-Caribbean diasporic performance aesthetic
  • part three. Mediations
  • The modern in modern times
  • The intermedial intercultural and the limits of empathy : Aluna Theatre's Nohayquiensepa / with Jessica Riley
  • Cahoots
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. The intercultural performance ecology of Toronto
  • Appendix 2. List of artists.

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