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Not the other avant-garde : the transnational foundations of avant-garde performance / edited by James M. Harding and John Rouse.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Theater--theory/text/performance.
- Theater--theory/text/performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Experimental theater--History--20th century.
- Experimental theater.
- Experimental drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Experimental drama.
- Arts and transnationalism--History--20th century.
- Arts and transnationalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant-garde began primarily as a European phenomenon that in turn spread around the world. These ten original essays, especially commissioned for Not the Other Avant-Garde, forge a radically new conception of the avant-garde by demonstrating the many ways in which the first--and second--wave avant-gardes were always already a transnational phenomenon, an amalgam of often contradictory performance traditions and practices developed in various cultural locations around the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, Argentina, India, and Japan. Essays from leading scholars and critics--including Marvin Carlson, Sudipto Chatterjee, John Conteh-Morgan, Peter Eckersall, Harry J. Elam Jr., Joachim Fiebach, David G. Goodman, Jean Graham-Jones, Hannah Higgins, and Adam Versenyi--suggest collectively that the very concept of the avant-garde is possible only if conceptualized beyond the limitations of Eurocentric paradigms. Not the Other Avant-Garde is groundbreaking in both avant-garde studies and performance studies and will be a valuable contribution to the fields of theater studies, modernist studies, art history, literature, and music history.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Introduction / James M. Harding and John Rouse""; ""From Cutting Edge to Rough Edges: On the Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance / James M. Harding""; ""The TDR Black Theatre Issue: Refiguring the Avant-Garde / Harry J. Elam, Jr.""; ""Avant-Garde and Performance Cultures in Africa / Joachim Fiebach""; ""The Other Avant-Garde: The Theater of Radical Aesthetics and the Poetics and Politics of Performance in Contemporary Africa / John Conteh-Morgan""; ""Avant-Garde Drama in the Middle East / Marvin Carlson""
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786612695698
- 9781282695696
- 128269569X
- 9780472025091
- 0472025090
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