Staging nationalism : essays on theatre and national identity / edited by Kiki Gounaridou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gounaridou, Kiki.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and state.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

viii, 235 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2005]

Summary:

"When a nation wants to reconnect with a sense of national identity, its cultural celebrations, including its theatre, are often tinged with nostalgia for a cultural high point in its history. Leaders often try to create a "neo-classical" cultural identity. This collection of essays discusses the relationship between political power and the construction or subversion of cultural identity"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Theatre and nationalism : introductory remarks and acknowledgements / Kiki Gounaridou

Reconstructing the nation : conflicting cultural imaginaries in eighteenth-century Poland / Natalya Baldyga

Celebrating the revolution while the king is still on the throne : The fall of the bastille and the festival of federation (July 1790) / Scott Magelssen

Athenian prologue to an American theatre / Gary Jay Williams

Herder and European theatre / S.E. Wilmer

Historical avant-garde performance and Japanese nationalism / David Pellegrini

Remembering and forgetting : Greek tragedy as national history in postwar Japan / Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei

The critical absence of Indonesia in W.S. Rendra's Village / Evan Darwin Winet

Robert Lepage : product of Québec? / Karen Fricker

Staging the nation on the ruins of the past : an investigation of Mexican archeological performance / Patricia Ybarra

The corpse of Algerian identity : Achour Ouamara's La défunte (the deceased) / Susan Haedicke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0786422041

OCLC:

58546554