Women's intercultural performance / Julie Holledge and Joanne Tompkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holledge, Julie, 1950-

Contributor:

Tompkins, Joanne, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the performing arts.

Rites and ceremonies.

Intercultural communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world. Contemporary feminist performance is explored in the contexts of current intercultural practices, theories and debates. Holledge and Tompkins provide ways of thinking about and analysing contemporary performance and representations of the performing, female, culturally-marked body. The book includes discussions of: * ritual performance by women from Central Australia and Korea * the cultural exchange of A Doll's House and Antigone * plays from Algeria, S

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: culture, feminism, theatre; Narrative trajectories: A Doll's House and Antigone; Ritual translocations: Kim Kum hwa and Warlpiri women; Layering space: staging and remembering 'home'; Intercultural bodies: meetings in the flesh; Intercultural markets: the female body and censorship; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-217) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-68877-6

1-280-32679-4

0-203-13665-9

0-203-17189-6

9780203136652

OCLC:

49569395