National Performance : Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion / Erin Hurley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurley, Erin, author.

Series:

Cultural spaces.

Cultural Spaces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater audiences--Québec (Province)--Psychology.

Theater audiences.

Theater and society--Québec (Province).

Theater and society.

Performing arts--Social aspects--Québec (Province).

Performing arts.

Québec.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ness' for audiences both within and outside the province? In exploring Expo 67, the critical response to Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs, Carbone 14's image-theatre, Marco Micone's writing practices, Cľine Dion's popular music, and feminist performance of the 1970s and 80s, Hurley reveals the ways in which certain performances come to be understood as 'national' while others are relegated to sub-national or outsider status. Each chapter focuses on a particular historical moment in Quebec's modern history and a genre of performance emblematic of the moment, and uses these to elaborate the nature of the national performances. Winner of the Northeast Modern Language Association's Book Prize, National Performance is sophisticated yet accessible, seeking to enlarge the parameters of what counts as 'Quebecois' performance, while providing a thorough introduction to changing discourses of nation-ness in Quebec.

Contents:

Introduction

Marginals, metaphors, and mimesis

National construction : Quebec's modernity at Expo 67

National reflection : Michel Tremblay's Les belles-soeurs and le nouvesu theâtre quebecois

National simulation : Marco Micone's culture imigree

National metonymy : arresting images in the devised works of Carbone 14

Naional affection : Celine Dion

Conclusion : feminist (re)production.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-6017-1

1-4426-8634-0

OCLC:

755882630