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Performance and cosmopolitics : cross-cultural transactions in Australasia / Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in international performancePublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan, cop. 2007Description: x, 245 p.; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780230003408
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Contents:
Conté: Introduction: Performing Cosmopolitics -- New cosmopolitanisms -- Theatre matters -- Cosmopolitanism in Australia -- Locating Australasian theatre -- 1. (Anti- )Cosmopolitan Encounters: Aboriginals and Asians on the colonial stage -- Staging Otherness -- White Australia or piebald possibilities? -- Miscegenation and its discontents -- 2. Indigenizing Australian Theatre: Bicentennial blues -- Reconciliation: a bran nue dae? -- Sharing histories and sorry business -- Awakenings: indigenous arts showcased -- Indigeneity and commodity culture -- 3. Asianizing Australian Theatre: Eastward ho! -- Staging Asia -- Embodying Asia -- Trading (with) Asia -- 4. Marketing Difference at the Adelaide Festival -- 5. Crossing Cultures: Case Studies: Aboriginal body cultures and the canonical stage -- The Floating World a cultural barometer -- Australian appropriations of the Suzuki Method -- 6. Asian Australian Hybrid Praxis -- 7 Performance and Asylum: Ethics, Embodiment, Efficacy -- Conclusion: Cosmopolitics in the New Millennium

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