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Denationalizing identities : the politics of performance in the Chinese diaspora / Wah Guan Lim.
Van Pelt Library PL2359.C45 L56 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lim, Wah Guan, author.
- Series:
- Cornell East Asia series ; 220.
- Cornell East Asia series; number 220
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Chinese, in literature.
- National characteristics in the theater.
- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
- Chinese diaspora in literature.
- Theater and society--East Asia.
- Theater and society.
- Theater and society--China.
- Chinese drama--Foreign countries.
- Chinese drama.
- Theater--East Asia--History--20th century.
- Theater.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Ithaca, New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Denationalizing Identities examines works by four playwrights in 1980s China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore: Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai, Danny Yung, and Kuo Pao Kun. Wah Guan Lim shows how theater shaped ideas of "Chineseness" and facilitated communication across the Taiwan strait during the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Articulating an alternative cultural identity: Kuo Pao Kun's multilingual theater practice in Singapore
- An incomplete break with the past: the remaking of identity in Stan Lai's Taiwanese theater
- Theater of rebellion: Danny Yung and experimental Hong Kong theater
- Diaspora within China: Gao Xingjian and the theater of exile.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lim, Wah Guan. Denationalizing identities.
- ISBN:
- 9781501774393
- 1501774395
- 9781501776717
- 1501776711
- OCLC:
- 1396252095
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