Milestones in Asian American Theatre, Lee, Josephine

Автор: Strecher Matthew Carl
Название: The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 0816691983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816691982
Издательство: Wiley
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In an "other world" composed of language--it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest--a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts--people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking machines that traverse the dark psychic underworld of this writer's extraordinary fiction.

Fervently acclaimed worldwide, Murakami's wildly imaginative work in many ways remains a mystery, its worlds within worlds uncharted territory. Finally in this book readers will find a map to the strange realm that grounds virtually every aspect of Murakami's writing. A journey through the enigmatic and baffling innermost mind, a metaphysical dimension where Murakami's most bizarre scenes and characters lurk, The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami exposes the psychological and mythological underpinnings of this other world. Matthew Carl Strecher shows how these considerations color Murakami's depictions of the individual and collective soul, which constantly shift between the tangible and intangible but in this literary landscape are undeniably real.

Through these otherworldly depths The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami also charts the writer's vivid "inner world," whether unconscious or underworld (what some Japanese critics call achiragawa, or "over there"), and its connectivity to language. Strecher covers all of Murakami's work--including his efforts as a literary journalist--and concludes with the first full-length close reading of the writer's newest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

Автор: Fu
Название: Chinese Theatre
ISBN: 0521186668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521186667
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Many colorful theatrical activities can be found throughout China. The most unique of these is traditional Chinese opera, but, since the early twentieth century, drama without music has also become popular in China. This illustrated introduction explores the origins and development of Chinese theater from ancient to modern times.

Автор: Demare, Brian James
Название: Mao`s cultural army
ISBN: 1107432227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107432222
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This study explores the role of drama troupes that were tasked with roaming the countryside in support of Mao`s communist revolution in China. Caught between the party and their audiences, the book illustrates how drama troupes, through performance, attempted to resist the ever growing reach of the People`s Republic of China state.

Автор: Morinaga Maki
Название: Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater
ISBN: 0295742755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295742755
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important aspect of kabuki since its beginnings in the 17th century. In a "labyrinth" of gendering, the practice of men playing women's roles has affected the manifestations of femininity in Japanese society. In this case study of how gender has been defined and redefined through the centuries, Maki Isaka examines how the onnagata's theatrical gender "impersonation" has shaped the concept and mechanisms of femininity and gender construction in Japan. The implications of the study go well beyond disciplinary and geographic cloisters.

Автор: Strippoli, Roberta
Название: Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess: The Legend of Gio and Hotoke in Japanese Literature, Theater, Visual Arts, and Cultural Heritage
ISBN: 9004356290 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004356290
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess explores the story of the dancers Gio and Hotoke, which first appeared in the fourteenth-century narrative Tale of the Heike. The story of the two love rivals is one of loss, female solidarity, and Buddhist salvation. Since its first appearance, it has inspired a stream of fiction, theatrical plays, and visual art works. These heroines have become the subjects of lavishly illustrated hand scrolls, ghosts on the noh stage, and Buddhist and Shinto goddesses. Physical monuments have been built to honor their memories; they are emblems of local pride and centerpieces of shared identity. Two beloved characters in the Japanese literary imagination, Gio and Hotoke are also models that have instructed generations of women on how to survive in a male-dominated world.

Автор: Soyica Diggs Colbert
Название: Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics
ISBN: 0813588510 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813588513
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Received the 2018 Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre?Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. The post–Jim Crow, post–apartheid, postcolonial era has ushered in a purportedly color blind society and along with it an assault on race-based forms of knowledge production and coalition formation. Soyica Diggs Colbert argues that in the late twentieth century race went “underground,” and by the twenty-first century race no longer functioned as an explicit marker of second-class citizenship. The subterranean nature of race manifests itself in discussions of the Trayvon Martin shooting that focus on his hoodie, an object of clothing that anyone can choose to wear, rather than focusing on structural racism; in discussions of the epidemic proportions of incarcerated black and brown people that highlight the individual’s poor decision making rather than the criminalization of blackness; in evaluations of black independence struggles in the Caribbean and Africa that allege these movements have accomplished little more than creating a black ruling class that mirrors the politics of its former white counterpart. Black Movements intervenes in these discussions by highlighting the ways in which artists draw from the past to create coherence about blackness in present and future worlds. Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits connecting people across space and time, Black Movements offers important interventions into performance, literary, diaspora, and African American studies.

Автор: Greene Maggie
Название: Resisting Spirits: Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People`s Republic of China
ISBN: 0472054309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472054305
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Offers a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through 1966, specifically focused on Mao-era culture workers` experiments with ghosts and ghost plays.

Автор: Lei Daphne
Название: Uncrossing the Borders: Performing Chinese in Gendered (Trans)Nationalism
ISBN: 0472131370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472131372
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Over many centuries, women on the Chinese stage committed suicide in beautiful and pathetic ways just before crossing the border for an interracial marriage. Uncrossing the Borders asks why this theatrical trope has remained so powerful and attractive.

Автор: Maggie Greene
Название: Resisting Spirits: Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People`s Republic of China
ISBN: 047207430X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472074303
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Offers a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through 1966, specifically focused on Mao-era culture workers` experiments with ghosts and ghost plays.

Автор: Siyuan Liu
Название: Xin Fengxia and the Transformation of China`s Ping Opera
ISBN: 1009087657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009087650
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This Element focuses on Xin Fengxia (1927-1998), a star of the regional xiqu form pingju, and her prominent role in transforming the genre from folk entertainment for the lower class to one of the most notable winners of the xiqu reform after the establishment of the People`s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949.

Автор: Frank Stewart
Название: Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance Through the Ages
ISBN: 0824894545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824894542
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: With nearly 400 pages, Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages is an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing. The volume emerges from the thirty-year effort of a community to gather Cambodian literary and cultural works. In doing so, they not only translated rare works into English for the first time, but also helped to rescue writing lost during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979).Readers will find the following and more: –Cambodian writing ranging over fourteen hundred years, from the seventh century to the present; –translations of classical texts;selections of modern Cambodian poetry, prose, and folk theater; –contemporary writings by Cambodian refugees and children of the diaspora living in countries from Australia to the United States, Canada, and Europe; –visual art, including oil paintings by Theanly Chov and excerpts from a graphic novel by Tian Veasna."The work included in Out of the Shadows of Angkor is just a part of the vast, diverse repertoire of Cambodian literature created by those born in Cambodia, in the camps, and in new lands. Soth Polin once told me, ‘What we have lost is indescribable . . . what we have lost is not reconstructable. An epoch is finished. So when we have literature again, it will be a new literature.’ We hope this book brings out of the shadows some of the lost, hidden, and emerging gems of Cambodian literature—past, present, and moving into the future." —From the overview essay by guest editor Sharon May

Автор: Aniruddha Dutta, Chaya Chandrasekhar, Christian Lee Novetzke, Claire Pamment, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Janice Glowski, Kellen Hoxworth, Pamela Loths
Название: Mimetic Desires: Impersonation and Guising Across South Asia
ISBN: 0824892771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824892777
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Through an exploration of subjects such as Gandhi impersonators, "God-men," performance artists, and participants in ritual enactments of sacred stories through dance and theatre, Mimetic Desires makes an intervention toward understanding the phenomenon of impersonation and guising in South Asia and the world. This volume defines impersonation as the temporary assumption of an identity or guise in performance that is perceived to be not one’s own, regardless of whether this assumption is deliberate, intentional, and conscious or not. Interrogating the legitimacy of the purported dialectic between the "real/original" and "fake/dupe," Mimetic Desires refutes any ordering of identity along the lines of a binary or dichotomy that presupposes the myth of an original identity. Guising captures sartorial and kinetic play more generally. By peeling back the layers of performative masks to reveal the process of the masquerade itself, we can see that those with the most social capital are often those with the most power and opportunities to impersonate "up"—and "down"—social hierarchies. The twelve chapters in Mimetic Desires disclose sites and processes of socio-political power facilitated by normative markers of social status relating to race, ethnicity, gender, caste, class, and religion—and how those markers can be manipulated to express and enhance individual and group power. The first comprehensive study to focus on impersonation in South Asia, Mimetic Desires expands on previous scholarship on impersonation and guising in vernacular theatre, dance, public processions, and religious ritual. It is particularly in conversation with the robust scholarship on gender performance and trans-kothi-hijra engagement in theatrical and dance forms in South Asia. Mimetic Desires explores some of the contexts and forms of impersonation in South Asia, with its remarkable array of performing arts, to gain insight into the very human and quotidian practices of impersonation and guising.