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Staging Nation
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Author : Jacqueline Lo
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2004-09-01
Staging Nation written by Jacqueline Lo and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-01 with Social Science categories.
Staging Nation examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation building in postcolonial Malaysia and Singapore. In less than fifty years, locally written and produced English language theatre has managed to shrug off its colonial shackles to become an important site of community expression. This groundbreaking comparative study discusses the role of creative writing and the act of performance as actual political acts and as interventions in national self-constructions. It argues that certain forms of theatre can be read as emerging oppositional cultures that contribute towards the deepening of democracy by offering contending narratives of the nation. Jacqueline Lo is Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities, Australian National University. She has published widely on postcolonial theory, performance studies and Asian-Australian cultural politics. She is the editor of Theatre in Southeast Asia, and co-editor of Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia.
Staging The Nation Opera And Nationalism In 19th Century Hungary
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Author : Krisztina Lajosi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-02-27
Staging The Nation Opera And Nationalism In 19th Century Hungary written by Krisztina Lajosi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-27 with History categories.
In Staging the Nation: Opera and Nationalism in 19th-Century Hungary, Krisztina Lajosi examines the crucial role of theatre and opera in the shaping of historical consciousness and the formation of national identity by turning opera-loving audiences into a national public.
Staging Nationalism
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Author : Kiki Gounaridou
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2005-05-19
Staging Nationalism written by Kiki Gounaridou and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
"When a nation wants to reconnect with a sense of national identity, its cultural celebrations, including its theatre, are often tinged with nostalgia for a cultural high point in its history. Leaders often try to create a "neo-classical" cultural identity. This collection of essays discusses the relationship between political power and the construction or subversion of cultural identity"--Provided by publisher.
Yiddish Paris
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Author : Nick Underwood
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2022-03
Yiddish Paris written by Nick Underwood and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03 with History categories.
Yiddish Paris explores how Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s created a Yiddish diaspora nation in Western Europe and how they presented that nation to themselves and to others in France. In this meticulously researched and first full-length study of interwar Yiddish culture in France, author Nicholas Underwood argues that the emergence of a Yiddish Paris was depended on "culture makers," mostly left-wing Jews from Socialist and Communist backgrounds who created cultural and scholarly organizations and institutions, including the French branch of YIVO (a research institution focused on East European Jews), theater troupes, choruses, and a pavilion at the Paris World's Fair of 1937. Yiddish Paris examines how these left-wing Yiddish-speaking Jews insisted that even in France, a country known for demanding the assimilation of immigrant and minority groups, they could remain a distinct group, part of a transnational Yiddish-speaking Jewish nation. Yet, in the process, they in fact created a French-inflected version of Jewish diaspora nationalism, finding allies among French intellectuals, largely on the left.
Staging England In The Elizabethan History Play
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Author : Ralf Hertel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Staging England In The Elizabethan History Play written by Ralf Hertel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected history plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe in the context of non-fictional texts (such as historiographies, chorographies, political treatises, or dictionary entries) and cultural artefacts (such as maps or portraits), and thus highlights the circulation, and mutation, of national thought in late sixteenth-century culture. At the same time, it goes beyond a New Historicist approach by foregrounding the performative surplus of the theatre event that is so essential for the shaping of collective identity. How, this study crucially asks, does the performative art of theatre contribute to the dynamics of the formation of national identity? Although theories about the nature of nationalism vary, a majority of theorists agree that notions of a shared territory and history, as well as questions of religion, class and gender play crucial roles in the shaping of national identity. These factors inform the structure of this book, and each is examined individually. In contrast to existing publications, this inquiry does not take for granted a pre-existing national identity that simply manifested itself in the literary works of the period; nor does it proceed from preconceived notions of the playwrights’ political views. Instead, it understands the early modern stage as an essentially contested space in which conflicting political positions are played off against each other, and it inquires into how the imaginative work of negotiating these stances eventually contributed to a rising national self-awareness in the spectators.
Theatre Society And The Nation
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Author : S. E. Wilmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Theatre Society And The Nation written by S. E. Wilmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Staging Tianxia
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Author : Lanlan Kuang
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2024-09-03
Staging Tianxia written by Lanlan Kuang and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-03 with Art categories.
Staging Tianxia explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order known as tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative, and rhetorical processes of expressive arts and cultural heritages that inform a vision of China as a historically multiethnic and cosmopolitan nation. Author Lanlan Kuang unites multimedia ethnographic research and theoretical insights from ethnomusicology, philosophy, religious studies, performance studies, and cognitive science, with a focus on Dunhuang bihua yuewu, a modern interpretation inserted into the Chinese classical dance and theatrical arts tradition. Staging Tianxia thus aims to redefine Silk Road studies and Dunhuangology, a transdisciplinary field dedicated to studying the texts and art of Dunhuang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that connected China via the Silk Road with Central Asia, South Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Staging Tianxia is a careful ethnographic study that looks at the importance of performance tradition and poetics in the arts and aesthetic theory of China.
Staging The Nation
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Author : Don B. Wilmeth
language : en
Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
Release Date : 1998
Staging The Nation written by Don B. Wilmeth and has been published by Bedford/st Martins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Drama categories.
This unique collection of nine hard-to-find plays tells the unfolding story of the early American theater by combining authoritative texts, author biographies, helpful historical and cultural chronologies, and a lucid, discerning introduction.
Staging England In The Elizabethan History Play
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Author : Prof Dr Ralf Hertel
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-04-28
Staging England In The Elizabethan History Play written by Prof Dr Ralf Hertel and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected history plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe in the context of non-fictional texts (such as historiographies, chorographies, political treatises, or dictionary entries) and cultural artefacts (such as maps or portraits), and thus highlights the circulation, and mutation, of national thought in late sixteenth-century culture. At the same time, it goes beyond a New Historicist approach by foregrounding the performative surplus of the theatre event that is so essential for the shaping of collective identity. How, this study crucially asks, does the performative art of theatre contribute to the dynamics of the formation of national identity? Although theories about the nature of nationalism vary, a majority of theorists agree that notions of a shared territory and history, as well as questions of religion, class and gender play crucial roles in the shaping of national identity. These factors inform the structure of this book, and each is examined individually. In contrast to existing publications, this inquiry does not take for granted a pre-existing national identity that simply manifested itself in the literary works of the period; nor does it proceed from preconceived notions of the playwrights’ political views. Instead, it understands the early modern stage as an essentially contested space in which conflicting political positions are played off against each other, and it inquires into how the imaginative work of negotiating these stances eventually contributed to a rising national self-awareness in the spectators.
Staging Ghana
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Author : Paul Schauert
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-07
Staging Ghana written by Paul Schauert and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-07 with Performing Arts categories.
The Ghana Dance Ensemble takes Ghana's national culture and interprets it in performance using authentic dance forms adapted for local or foreign audiences. Often, says Paul Schauert, the aims of the ensemble and the aims of the individual performers work in opposition. Schauert discusses the history of the dance troupe and its role in Ghana's post-independence nation-building strategy and illustrates how the nation's culture makes its way onto the stage. He argues that as dancers negotiate the terrain of what is or is not authentic, they also find ways to express their personal aspirations, discovering, within the framework of nationalism or collective identity, that there is considerable room to reform national ideals through individual virtuosity.