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 today's
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 "mouths on fire" (August Wilson), these
playwrights contest stereotyped notions of authenticity. In-spired
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, Suzan-Lori Parks, Djanet
Sears, Chay Yew, Padma Viswanathan, Rana Bose, Diane Glancy, and
Drew Hayden Taylor. Through its cross-cultural and cross-national
prism, ""Mouths on Fire with Songs" "shows that multi-ethnic drama
is one of the most diverse and dynamic sites of cultural production
in North America today.
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