Theatre and Migration

Informationen zum Autor Emma Cox is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is editor of Staging Asylum: Contemporary Australian Plays about Refugees. Klappentext A vibrant introduction to theatre that engages with stories, conditions and experiences of migration. Arguing that migration is crucially about encounters with foreignness, Emma Cox traces international histories of migration and considers key issues in contemporary performance - from Cape Town and Melbourne, to London and Toronto. Zusammenfassung A vibrant introduction to theatre that engages with stories! conditions and experiences of migration. Arguing that migration is crucially about encounters with foreignness! Emma Cox traces international histories of migration and considers key issues in contemporary performance - from Cape Town and Melbourne! to London and Toronto. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editors' Preface Foreword by Peter Sellars Part 1: Politics and Mythopoetics Languages Stories Artists Audiences Part 2: The Migrant Nation 'Captured Outside' The Myth of Autochthonous Origins Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Borderlines Leveraging Indigenous Belonging Part 3: The Migrant City Time and Tactics London: Arrival Capital Cape Town: Desegregating Space Toronto: Multicultural Configurations Conclusion Further Reading.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Cox, Peter Sellars
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2014
• EAN: 9781137004017
• ISBN: 978-1-137-00401-7
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Theatre And; Theatre and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Theater, B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies, Asylum;belonging;migration;politics;theatre