Performing the Intercultural City / Ric Knowles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knowles, Richard Paul, 1950-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Theater--text/theory/performance

Theater: theory/text/performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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.

Multiculturalism in the theater--Ontario--Toronto.

Multiculturalism in the theater.

Performing arts--Social aspects.

Ontario--Toronto.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

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.

Contents:

Introduction

part one. Contexts

Multicultural text, intercultural performance

Performing intercultural memory in the diasporic present

part two. Dramaturgies

Toward a Filipino Canadian dramaturgy : the Carlos Bulosan Collective

Indigenous knowledge, contemporary performance : dramaturgies of decolonization

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

part three. Mediations

The modern in modern times

The intermedial intercultural and the limits of empathy : Aluna Theatre's Nohayquiensepa / with Jessica Riley

Cahoots

Conclusion

Appendix 1. The intercultural performance ecology of Toronto

Appendix 2. List of artists.

Notes:

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-260) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472123063

9780472073603

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.9509783

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.