Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts - Translating Traditions (Hardcover)

This volume focuses on the performing arts of the Asian diasporas and intercultural performances in the context of modernity and globalisation. A wide range of performing arts of the Asian diasporas and diverse intercultural performance practices across the world are examined by scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies, anthropology, cultural studies, dance ethnology and ethnomusicology. These essays locate the performing arts in late modernity as a discursive field in which the boundary between tradition and translation' and authenticity and hybridity' are negotiated and redefined to create a multitude of meanings and aesthetics in global and local contexts.
Various issues are addressed, including questions of identity, ethnicity, notions of displacement, gender, inter-ethnic power relations, inter-cultural negotiations and the social and political implications of performance. A number of cultural processes associated with diasporas and their performing arts are examined, such as the construction of diaspora memory', the translation of imagined' tradition, and cultural adaptation and innovation in a new home', all of which give shape to hybrid and multiple identities which cut across and intersect geo-political and national boundaries.

General

Imprint:	RoutledgeCurzon
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2004
First published:	2004
Editors:	Hae-Kyung Um
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-7007-1586-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7007-1586-X
Barcode:	9780700715862

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