000			03666cam a2200553Ii 4500
001			BRILL9789401209540
003			nllekb
005			20260610105717.0
007			cr un uuuua
008			131025s2013 ne a s 000 0 eng d
020			_a9789401209540 _q(electronic book)
020			_z9789042036963 _q(print)
024	7		_a10.1163/9789401209540 _2DOI
035			_a(OCoLC)861506615
040			_aNL-LeKB _cNL-LeKB _erda
050		4	_aPN56.M8 _bW34 2013
072		7	_aDSG _2bicssc
072		7	_aLIT013000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aWagter, Caroline De.
245	1	0	_a'Mouths on Fire with Songs' : _bNegotiating Multi-Ethnic Identities on the Contemporary North American Stage.
264		1	_aAmsterdam : _bEditions Rodopi, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (426 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCross/Cultures
505	0	0	_aPreliminary Material -- Staging Hybridity on the North American Scene -- Shattering the North American Dream: Testimonies and Experiences -- Cultural Memory in North American Drama -- Performing Imagined Communities -- Millennial Vistas -- Works Cited -- Index.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aThis 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.
648		7	_a1900-1999 _2fast
650		0	_aMulticulturalism in literature.
650		0	_aEthnicity in literature.
650		0	_aIdentity (Philosophical concept)
650		0	_aDrama _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aCanadian drama _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican drama _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		7	_aAmerican drama. _2fast
650		7	_aCanadian drama. _2fast
650		7	_aDrama _xSocial aspects. _2fast
650		7	_aEthnicity in literature. _2fast
650		7	_aIdentity (Philosophical concept) _2fast
650		7	_aMulticulturalism in literature. _2fast
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781299879379
830		0	_aCross/Cultures _v163.
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004357891.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401209540
999			_c45293 _d45293