Theatre and performance in the Asia-Pacific : regional modernities in the global era /

Theatre and performance in the Asia-Pacific : regional modernities in the global era /

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Author / Creator:	Varney, Denise.
Imprint:	Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, c2013.
Description:	xiii, 253 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in international performance Studies in international performance.
Subject:	Theater -- Pacific Area. Performing arts. Theater. Asia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9289254

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Other authors / contributors:	Eckersall, Peter. Hudson, Chris. Hatley, Barbara.
ISBN:	0230366481 9780230366480
Notes:	Authors: Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson and Barbara Hatley. Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-241) and index.
Summary:	This book is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. The sites encompass marked differences in language, performance, history and politics, and variations in the solidity and volatility of their imagined worlds. Recognizing these differences, the book explores contrasts in each nation as it identifies with the region and the cultural interconnections that support a regional identity. While the four nations demonstrate degrees of ambivalence and connection to the Asia-Pacific as a region, the project argues that relations to modernity and globalization are less nation-specific. The project articulates a regional configuration of modernity which is multiple, contradictory but nonetheless regional. Each nation has in common the imperative to reconcile with and adapt to European modernity in a way that renders global modernity multiple rather than singular.

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Summary:	Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.
Item Description:	Authors: Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson and Barbara Hatley.
Physical Description:	xiii, 253 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-241) and index.
ISBN:	0230366481 9780230366480