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List of contents
Chapter 1 VIETNAMESE THEATRE OF RESISTANCE, Nora M. Alter; Chapter 2 MISE-EN-(COLONIAL-) SCÈNE[Sudipto Chatterjee; Chapter 3 POSTCOLONIAL BRITISH THEATRE, Mary Karen Dahl; Chapter 4 ERECT SONS AND DUTIFUL DAUGHTERS, Alan Filewod; Chapter 5 CONTEMPORARY MAYAN THEATRE AND ETHNIC CONFLICT, Donald H. Frischmann; Chapter 6 ELECTRIC SALOME, Rhonda K. Garelick; Chapter 7 DRESSED TO KILL, Helen Gilbert; Chapter 8 REPRESENTING EMPIRE, Michael Hays; Chapter 9 “;THAT FLUCTUATING MOVEMENT OF NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS”, Loren Kruger; Chapter 10 LINGUISTIC IMPERIALISM, THE EARLY ABBEY THEATRE, AND THE TRANSLATIONSOF BRIAN FRIEL, Josephine Lee; Chapter 11 DECOLONIZING THE THEATRE, Robert Eric Livington; Chapter 12 INTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCE, THEATRE ANTHROPOLOGY, AND THE IMPERIALIST CRITIQUE, Julie Stone Peters; Chapter 13 SATELLITE DRAMA, Michael Quinn; Chapter 14 ON JEAN GENET'S LATE WORKS, Edward W. Said; Chapter 15 STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL, Elaine Savory; Index;
About the author
J.Ellen Gainor is an Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Shaw's Daughters: Dramatic and Narrative Constructions of Gender (1991) and has also written on imperialism and colonialism in the drama of George Bernard Shaw and Athol Fugard.
Summary
A collection of essays that explore how and why theatre was used in imperial societies to articulate the concerns of both colonizers and colonized. It covers many diverse nations and includes a new essay from Edward Said.
