“Mouths on Fire with Songs”.
This book, the first cross-cultural study of post-1970s anglophone Canadian and American multi-ethnic drama, invites assessment of the thematic and aesthetic contributions of this theater in todayas globalized culture. A growing number of playwrights of African, South and East Asian, and First Nations heritage have engaged with manifold socio-political and aesthetic issues in experimental works combining formal features of more classical European dramatic traditions with such elements of ethnic culture as ancestral music and dance, to interrogate the very concepts of theatricality and canonicity. Their amouths on firea (August Wilson), these playwrights contest stereotyped notions of authenticity. InAnspired by songs of anger, passion, experience, survival, and regeneration, the plays analyzed bespeak a burning desire to break the silence, to heal and empower. Foregrounding questions of hybridity, diaspora, cultural memory, and nation, this comparative study includes discussion of some twenty-five case studies of plays by such authors as M.J. Kang, August Wilson, SuzanaLori Parks, Djanet Sears, Chay Yew, Padma Viswanathan, Rana Bose, Diane Glancy, and Drew Hayden Taylor. Through its cross-cultural and cross-national prism, aMouths on Fire with Songsa shows that multi-ethnic drama is one of the most diverse and dynamic sites of cultural production in North America today.In her preface, Sears confides: Shakespearea#39;s Othello had haunted me since I first was introduced to him. Sir Laurence Oliver in black-face. Othello is ... and the Healing Place of History, ed. BrownaGuillory (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006):anbsp;...
| Title | : | “Mouths on Fire with Songs”. |
| Author | : | Caroline De Wagter |
| Publisher | : | Rodopi - 2013 |
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