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Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage - Land, People, Culture (Paperback)
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Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage - Land, People, Culture (Paperback)
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Over the past 50 years, Indigenous Australian theatre practice has
emerged as a dynamic site for the discursive reflection of culture
and tradition as well as colonial legacies, leveraging the power of
storytelling to create and advocate contemporary fluid conceptions
of Indigeneity. Performing Indigenous Identities on the
Contemporary Australian Stage offers a window into the history and
diversity of this vigorous practice. It introduces the reader to
cornerstones of Indigenous Australian cultural frameworks and on
this backdrop discusses a wealth of plays in light of their
responses to contemporary Australian identity politics. The
in-depth readings of two landmark theatre productions, Scott
Rankin's Namatjira (2010) and Wesley Enoch & Anita Heiss' I Am
Eora (2012), trace the artists' engagement with questions of
community consolidation and national reconciliation, carefully
considering the implications of their propositions for identity
work arising from the translation of traditional ontologies into
contemporary orientations. The analyses of the dramatic texts are
incrementally enriched by a dense reflection of the production and
reception contexts of the plays, providing an expanded framework
for the critical consideration of contemporary postcolonial theatre
practice that allows for a well-founded appreciation of the
strengths yet also pointing to the limitations of current
representative approaches on the Australian mainstage. This study
will be of great interest to students and scholars of Postcolonial,
Literary, Performance and Theatre Studies.
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