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The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures - Beyond Postcolonialism (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures - Beyond Postcolonialism (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of
performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of
global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument
for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative
cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they are
dependent upon each other. While the term 'intercultural theatre'
as a concept points back to postcolonialism and its contradictions,
The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures explores global
developments in the performing arts that cannot adequately be
explained and understood using postcolonial theory. The authors
challenge the dichotomy 'the West and the rest' - where Western
cultures are 'universal' and non-Western cultures are 'particular'
- as well as ideas of national culture and cultural ownership. This
volume uses international case studies to explore the politics of
globalization, looking at new paternalistic forms of exchange and
the new inequalities emerging from it. These case studies are
guided by the principle that processes of interweaving performance
cultures are, in fact, political processes. The authors explore the
inextricability of the aesthetic and the political, whereby
aesthetics cannot be perceived as opposite to the political;
rather, the aesthetic is the political. Helen Gilbert's essay 'Let
the Games Begin: Pageants, Protests, Indigeneity (1968-2010)'won
the 2015 Marlis Thiersch Prize for best essay from the Australasian
Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Association.
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