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Informationen zum Autor RIC KNOWLES is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is editor of Canadian Theatre Review, and former editor of Modern Drama. He is the author of The Theatre of Form, Shakespeare and Canada, and Reading the Material Theatre. He is general editor of the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Klappentext How are hybrid and diasporic identities performed in increasingly diverse societies? How can we begin to think differently about theatrical flow across cultures? Interculturalism is an increasingly urgent topic in the 21st century. As human traffic between nations increases, it becomes imperative to critically re-examine the way cultural exchange is performed. Theatre& Interculturalism surveys established approaches and asks what it would mean to reconsider intercultural performance, not from the points of view of the colonizing cultures, but 'from below'- from the viewpoints of the historically colonized and marginalized. Zusammenfassung Theatre& Interculturalism surveys established approaches and asks what it would mean to reconsider intercultural performance, not from the points of view of the colonizing cultures, but 'from below'- from the viewpoints of the historically colonized and marginalized. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Theatrical Interculturalism and its Discontents Theatre Has Always Been Intercultural Brecht and the Materialists Artaud and his Doubles: The Universalists The West and the Rest Decolonizing the Stage Critical Intersections Intercultural Performance Ecologies Conclusion Further Reading.
