Performing the intercultural city / Ric Knowles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knowles, Richard Paul, 1950- author.

Series:

Theater--text/theory/performance

Theater: theory/text/performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism in the theater--Ontario--Toronto.

Multiculturalism in the theater.

Theater and society--Ontario--Toronto.

Theater and society.

Intercultural communication in the performing arts--Ontario--Toronto.

Intercultural communication in the performing arts.

Performing arts--Social aspects--Ontario--Toronto.

Performing arts.

Performing arts--Social aspects.

Ontario--Toronto.

Physical Description:

xvi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]

Summary:

In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto-a representative global city in this multicultural country-stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins with a theoretical introduction to theatrical interculturalism. Subsequent chapters outline the historical and political context within which intercultural performance takes place; examine the ways in which Indigenous, Filipino, and Afro-Caribbean Canadian theater has developed play structures based on culturally specific forms of expression; and explore the ways that intercultural companies have used intermediality, modernist form, and intercultural discourse to mediate across cultures. Performing the Intercultural City will appeal to scholars, artists, and the theater-going public, including those in theater and performance studies, urban studies, critical multiculturalism studies, diaspora studies, critical cosmopolitanism studies, critical race theory, and cultural studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Contexts 21

1 Multicultural Text, Intercultural Performance 23

2 Performing Intercultural Memory in the Diasporic Present 44

Part 2 Dramaturgies 65

3 Toward a Filipino Canadian Dramaturgy: The Carlos Bulosan Collective 70

4 Indigenous Knowledge, Contemporary Performance: Dramaturgies of Decolonization 86

5 To be dub, female, and black: toward a womban-centred Afro-Caribbean diasporic performance aesthetic 109

Part 3 Mediations 127

6 The Modern in Modern Times 130

7 The Intermedial Intercultural and the Limits of Empathy: Aluna Theatre's Nohayquiensepa / Jessica Riley Riley, Jessica 152

8 Cahoots 176.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0472073605

9780472073603

0472053604

9780472053605

OCLC:

985688156