Performance, exile and 'America' [Elektronisk resurs] / Edited by Silvija Jestrovic, Yana Meerzon.

• List of illustrations Series editors' preface Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: Framing 'America': Between Exilic Imaginary and Exilic Collective-- S.Jestrovic& Y.Meerzon PART 1: 'AMERICA' BETWEEN THE EXILIC IMAGINARY AND THE EXILIC COLLECTIVE Land of Air-conditioning and Opportunity: America on the Irish Stage-- E.Fitzpatrick Ninety Miles Away: Exile and Identity in Recent Cuban-American Dramas-- Y.Prizant An American Mile in Others' Shoes' -- The Tragicomedy of Immigrating to the 21st Century U.S.-- D.Manole The American Landscape Reconsidered. On Theatricality of Urban America in the Russian Aemigre Writings, with the special focus on Vasily Aksyonov's works-- Y.Meerzon PART 2: AMERICAN PERFORMATIVITY Theatres in America: Brecht and Kafka-- F.Rokem America Relocated -- Karel Aiapek's Robots between Prague, Berlin and New York-- V.Ambros At Home in Exile: Finding America in Casablanca and Camino Real-- A.Ackerman PART 3: AMERICA AND THE OTHER: FROM REPRESENTATION TO INTERVENTION De-Territorializing Voices: Staging the Middle East in American Theatre-- E.Jaffe-Berg Current Trends in Arab-American Performance-- D.Basiouny& M.Carlson Bombing (on) the Border: Ali& Ali and the aXes of Evil as Transnational Agitprop-- J.Wasserman Exiles and the City: Krzysztof Wodiczko's New York Interventions of Making the Familiar Strange-- S.Jestrovic Index.

• This collection investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place particularly focusing on issues of language, space and identity. It looks at ways in which immigrants and outsiders are embodied in American theatre practice and explores ways in which 'America' is staged and dramatized by immigrants and foreigners. -- This collection of essays investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place particularly focusing on issues of language, space, and identity. It explores the idea of 'America' -- from metaphoric to physical space of exile-- and ways in which it has been shaped and transformed through exilic experiences, visions, and performances, but also in the light of the current political climate in the US. It aims to address the problems of representation of the Other on stage and to investigate how 'America' and exile are imagined, challenged, and theatricalized in the works of various theatre artists. This collection offers a twofold perceptive -- it looks at ways in which immigrants and outsiders are embodied in American theatre practice; and explores ways in which 'America' is staged and dramatized by immigrants and foreigners. Contributors: Alan Ackerman, Veronika Ambros, Dalia Basiouny, Marvin Carlson, Lisa Fitzpatrick, Erith Jaffe-Berg, Silvija Jestrovic, Diana Manole, Yana Meerzon, Yael Prizant, Jerry Wasserman. 

Ämnesord

Transnationalism in literature.  (LCSH)

Immigrants in literature.  (LCSH)

American drama  -- Minority authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature.  (eflch)

United States  -- In literature. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

LIT (ämneskategori)

822.509355 (DDC)