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Staging Nationalism - Essays on Theatre and National Identity (Paperback)
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Staging Nationalism - Essays on Theatre and National Identity (Paperback)
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When a nation wants to reconnect with a sense of national identity,
its cultural celebrations, including its theatre, are often tinged
with nostalgia for a cultural high point in its history. Leaders
often try to create a ?neo-classical? cultural identity.
Artificially returning to an imagined pinnacle, however, can fail
to take into account new aspects of national identity, such as the
infusion of other cultures and languages. This collection of essays
discusses the relationship between political power and the
construction or subversion of cultural identity. The collection
takes a wide historical perspective from distinct periods and
cultures from all over the world. A few of the topics examined
include how theatre in 18th century Poland tried to reconstitute
the identity of an imagined classical heritage clung to by Polish
nobles; how festival practices during the French Revolution tried
to give meaning to recent events and rein in anxiety about split
loyalties; how Athenian prologues cemented early American culture;
how romantic admiration of peasant culture spread from Germany
throughout Europe; how Greek tragedy in postwar Japan reflects the
conflict of Japan's imposed identity as a Western-style democracy
with its prewar identity as a samurai nation; and how Mexican
archeological performance links the indigenous past with a
post-revolutionary identity as a mixed race country.
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