Gao Xingjian And Transcultural Chinese Theater
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Gao Xingjian And Transcultural Chinese Theater
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Author : Sy Ren Quah
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2004-04-30
Gao Xingjian And Transcultural Chinese Theater written by Sy Ren Quah and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-30 with Performing Arts categories.
A reclusive painter living in exile in Paris, Gao Xingjian found himself instantly famous when he became the first Chinese language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (2000). The author of the novel Soul Mountain, Gao is best known in his native country not as a visual artist or novelist, but as a playwright and theater director. This important yet rarely studied figure is the focus of Sy Ren Quah’s rich account appraising his contributions to contemporary Chinese and World Theater over the past two decades. A playwright himself, Quah provides an in-depth analysis of the literary, dramatic, intellectual, and technical aspects of Gao’s plays and theatrical concepts, treating Gao’s theater not only as an art form but, with Gao himself, as a significant cultural phenomenon. The Bus Stop, Wild Man, and other early works are examined in the context of 1980s China. Influenced by Stanislavsky, Brecht, and Beckett, as well as traditional Chinese theater arts and philosophies, Gao refused to conform to the dominant realist conventions of the time and made a conscious effort to renovate Chinese theater. The young playwright sought to create a "Modern Eastern Theater" that was neither a vague generalization nor a nationalistic declaration, but a challenge to orthodox ideologies. After fleeing China, Gao was free to experiment openly with theatrical forms. Quah examines his post-exile plays in a context of performance theory and philosophical concerns, such as the real versus the unreal, and the Self versus the Other. The image conveyed of Gao is not of an activist but of an intellectual committed to maintaining his artistic independence who continues to voice his opinion on political matters.
Transcultural Aesthetics In The Plays Of Gao Xingjian
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Author : T. Coulter
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-02
Transcultural Aesthetics In The Plays Of Gao Xingjian written by T. Coulter and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Gao Xingjian has been lauded for his inventive use of Chinese culture in his paintings, plays, and cinema, however he denies that his current work participates in any notion of Chinese. This book traces the development of these forms and how the relate and interact in the French language plays of the Nobel Laureate.
Performing Identity In The Plays Of Gao Xingjian
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Author : Todd J. Coulter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-07-15
Performing Identity In The Plays Of Gao Xingjian written by Todd J. Coulter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Offers a fresh look at a theater scholar and Nobel Peace Prize laureate viewed from a cultural studies lens. This exploration of transcultural theater is useful to both the general and initiated reader. It embraces the social and aesthetic influences of traditional Chinese theater and the intellectual, cultural influences of French theater.
Drama Box 30 Keywords
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Author : Quah Sy Ren
language : en
Publisher: Drama Box & Pagesetters
Release Date : 2022
Drama Box 30 Keywords written by Quah Sy Ren and has been published by Drama Box & Pagesetters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Performing Arts categories.
A comprehensive, multi-layered examination and discussion of Drama Box’s 30-year history, based on 30 key words. These allow you to connect and refer to the characteristics and social thought of the times on a broader level. The book offers exclusive insight into Drama Box as an independent theatre company, and incisive appreciation of Singapore’s theatre and social landscape.
Soul Of Chaos
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Author : Kwok-kan Tam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Soul Of Chaos written by Kwok-kan Tam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Drama categories.
This book presents a collection of critical studies on various aspects of Gao Xingjian's novels and plays. Contributors include distinguished scholars in the fields of comparative literature, theatre and Chinese studies, whose views form a critical dialogue on the writer's achievements in literature and the theatre.
Towards A Modern Zen Theatre
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Author : Yiheng Zhao
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Towards A Modern Zen Theatre written by Yiheng Zhao and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Gao Xingjian, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been the most important and productive playwright in the powerful Chinese Experimental Theatre Movement.
Denationalizing Identities
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Author : Wah Guan Lim
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2024-07-15
Denationalizing Identities written by Wah Guan Lim and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Denationalizing Identities explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan Lim's study of four important diasporic director-playwrights—Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai Sheng-chuan, Danny Yung Ning Tsun, and Kuo Pao Kun—shows the impact of theater on ideas of "Chineseness" across China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. At the height of the Cold War, the "Bamboo Curtain" divided the "two Chinas" across the Taiwan Strait. Meanwhile, Hong Kong prepared for its handover to the People's Republic of China and Singapore rethought Chinese education. As geopolitical tensions imposed ethno-nationalist identities across the region, these four dramatists wove together local, foreign, and Chinese elements in their art, challenging mainland China's narrative of an inevitable communist outcome. By performing cultural identities alternative to the ones sanctioned by their own states, they debunked notions of a unified Chineseness. Denationalizing Identities highlights the key role theater and performance played in circulating people and ideas across the Chinese-speaking world, well before cross-strait relations began to thaw.
Gao Xingjian And Transmedia Aesthetics
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Author : Mabel Lee
language : en
Publisher: Cambria Sinophone World
Release Date : 2018
Gao Xingjian And Transmedia Aesthetics written by Mabel Lee and has been published by Cambria Sinophone World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Gao Xingjian S Post Exile Plays
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Author : Mary Mazzilli
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-19
Gao Xingjian S Post Exile Plays written by Mary Mazzilli and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays. Since relocating to France in 1987, in a voluntary exile from China, he has assembled a body of dramatic work that has best been understood neither as expressly Chinese nor French, but as transnational. In this comprehensive study of his post-exile plays, Mary Mazzilli explores Gao's plays as examples of postdramatic transnationalism: a transnational artistic and theatrical trend that is fluid, flexible and encompasses a variety of styles and influences. As such, this innovative interdisciplinary investigation offers fresh insights into contemporary theatre. Whereas other publications have considered Gao's work as a cultural and artistic phenomenon, Gao Xingjian's Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre is the first study to relate his plays to postdramatic theatre and to provide close textual and dramatic analysis that will help readers to better understand his complex work, and also to see it in the context of the work of contemporary playwrights such as Martin Crimp, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek. Among the plays discussed are: The Other Shore, written just before he left China in 1987; Between Life and Death (1991) - compared in detail to Martin Crimp's Attempts on her life; Dialogue and Rebuttal (1992), and its relationship to Beckett's Happy Days; Nocturnal Wanderer (1993), Weekend Quartet (1995), and the latest plays Snow in August (1997), Death Collector (2000) and Ballade Nocturne (2010).
City Of The Dead And Song Of The Night
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Author : Gao Xingjian
language : en
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Release Date : 2015-02-09
City Of The Dead And Song Of The Night written by Gao Xingjian and has been published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-09 with Drama categories.
Presented in English for the first time in this book are two plays by Gao Xingjian originally written in Chinese: City of the Dead and Song of the Night. City of the Dead is the first of Gao Xingjian's plays to focus fully on the malefemale relationship. In this work, he transforms a wellknown ancient morality tale, "Zhuangzi Tests His Wife", which had been used to caution women against being unfaithful to their husbands, into a modern play that is in keeping with his own sympathetic stance towards women in malefemale relationships. In a certain sense, City of the Dead may be regarded as defining Gao's fundamental view that men possess a flippant and cavalier attitude to their female sexual partner or partners, and that women who become involved in sexual relationships with men are therefore doomed to suffer. Among Gao Xingjian's theatrical portrayals of the female psyche, Song of the Night is his most ambitious and most detailed one. Gao's articulation of the female psyche is embedded in a solid substratumbedrock of his autobiographical impulses. It is through female actors, and his range of ingenious theatrical innovations that Gao succeeds in convincingly portraying his personal view of the power dynamics generated in malefemale sexual relationships, and how these are played out. Together, these two plays advance Gao Xingjian's innovative theatrical experiments in dramatic prose across linguistic and cultural boundaries. The English translations of City of the Dead and Song of the Night in the present volume will lead to significant Englishlanguage productions of these plays, and concomitantly a greater understanding of Gao's plays.