Political adaptation in Canadian theatre / Kailin Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Kailin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political plays, Canadian--History and criticism.

Political plays, Canadian.

Canadian drama--History and criticism.

Canadian drama.

Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than updating popular narratives, adaptation informs understandings of culture, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as individual experiences. In Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre Kailin Wright investigates adaptations that retell popular stories with a political purpose and examines how they acknowledge diverse realities and transform our past. Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre explores adaptations of Canadian history, Shakespeare, Greek mythologies, and Indigenous history by playwrights who identify as English-Canadian, African-Canadian, French-Canadian, French, Kuna Rappahannock, and Delaware from the Six Nations. Along with new considerations of the activist potential of popular Canadian theatre, this book outlines eight strategies that adaptors employ to challenge conceptions of what it means to be Indigenous, Black, queer, or female. Recent cancellations of theatre productions whose creators borrowed elements from minority cultures demonstrate the need for a distinction between political adaptation and cultural appropriation. Wright builds on Linda Hutcheon's definition of adaptation as repetition with difference and applies identification theory to illustrate how political adaptation at once underlines and undermines its canonical source. An exciting intervention in adaptation studies, Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre unsettles the dynamics of popular and political theatre and rethinks the ways performance can contribute to how one country defines itself."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Limits of Political Adaptation in Le Theatre de Neptune en la Nouvelle-France and Sinking Neptune

2. Political Adaptation as Disidentification in Gertrude and Ophelia and Harlem Duet

3. Popular Yet Political Audiences in The Penelopiad and If We Were Birds

4. Beyond the Limits of Adaptation in Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots and Almighty Voice and His Wife.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Wright, Kailin. Political adaptation in Canadian theatre.

ISBN:

0228001900

9780228001904

9780228001898

0228001897

OCLC:

1126211348