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Author(s): Scott Magelssen; Ann Haugo
ISBN(s): 9781443814997, 1443814997
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.42 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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Author: Scott Magelssen; Ann Haugo

Terms such as race, ethnicity, otherness, and pluralism are becoming increasingly problematic as we grapple with issues of identity in the “post-multicultural” discursive landscape of the twenty-first century. Querying Difference in Theatre History comprises sixteen scholarly case studies in which authors tease out the limitations of contemporary discourse concerning ideas of difference in theatre history today. The essays then incorporate new approaches, theories, and critical vocabulary for dealing with such issues. Unlike other works that address similar subjects, this volume arranges essays by mode of inquiry rather than by “kind of difference.” It offers essays that are complex and rigorous, yet accessible and pleasurable—ideal for use in graduate- and upper-division undergraduate theatre and performance classrooms. While “difference” may immediately conjure issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and/or sexuality, this volume also includes essays that examine differences more broadly construed: nationalisms, economic gradations, and so forth. Particular topics in this volume range from intersections of class-based and sex-based politics in theatrical performances during the French Revolution, constructions of blackness and whiteness in turn-of-the-century American brothel dramas, “fantasy heritage,” examinations of immigrant, exile, and refugee dramatic characters vis-à-vis notions of diasporic space, to the political and methodological dilemmas raised when dealing with an individual or event that is “repugnant” or “despicable” to the historian (e.g., anti-gay funeral protests).

Table of contents:

Part I: Historiography

  1. Ten-Foot-Pole Historiography: Liberal Democracy, Ideological Difference, and Despicable Acts – John Fletcher

  2. The Play Review as a Means of Querying Difference, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Performative – Henry Bial

  3. Who is the Historical Theatre Historian? Unearthing the Roots of Positivist Assumptions in Theatre History Studies – Robert Shimko

  4. The Trouble with Tribades: Struggles of Sex and Class in French Revolutionary Performance – Alan Sikes

Part II: Performance and Cultural Exchange
5. The Master and the Mademoiselle: Gender Secrets in Plain Sight in Non-Text Based Antebellum Performance – Shauna Vey
6. “People Who Went to Ridicule Remained to Admire”: Ira Aldridge, Stephen Price, and the 1828 Coburg Theatre Lawsuit – Kate Roark
7. Proximity and the Demarcation of the Other: Three “Chinese” Productions on the Early-Twentieth-Century London Stage – Dongshin Chang
8. The paduanos and the Theatrical Construction of California’s Mexican Past – Andrew Gibb
9. Haunted Landscapes: Ping Chong’s East / West Productions – Kay Martinovich

Part III: Imagined Communities and The Performance of Cultural Identity
10. From Camille to Lulu Belle: Constructing the Black Courtesan in the American Brothel Drama – Katie N. Johnson
11. The Moral Tetralogy: American Social/Political/Cultural Commentary in the Later Writings of Steve Tesich – Michael A. Rothmayer
12. Acts of Transfer: the 1975 and 1976 Productions of Raven and Body Indian by Red Earth Performing Arts Company – Julie Pearson-Little Thunder
13. Constructing the Fruited Plain: The “red,” The White, and the imbued – Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson
14. The Immigrant, the Exile, the Refugee in Wertenbaker’s Credible Witness: A Poetics of Diaspora – Sara Freeman
15. Puerto Rican Stages: Theatre in the Metropolis, On the Island, on the Margins – Elena García-Martín
16. Querying Difference on the Battlefield – Leigh Clemons

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