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001 2009044070
003 DLC
005 20091103063344.0
008 091019s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009044070
020 $a9780230574564 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS153.M56$bP47 2010
082 00 $a822/.509355$222
245 00 $aPerformance, exile and "America" /$cedited by Silvija Jestrovic and Yana Meerzon.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2010.
263 $a1001
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aStudies in international performance
520 $a"This collection of essays investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place, investigating how 'America' and exile are imagined, challenged and theatricalized in the works of various theatre artists in the light of the current political climate in the USA"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $aIntroduction : Framing "America" : Between Exilic Imaginary and Exilic Collective / Silvija Jestrovic & Yana Meerzon -- "AMERICA" BETWEEN THE EXILIC IMAGINARY AND THE EXILIC COLLECTIVE. Land of Air-conditioning and Opportunity : America on the Irish Stage / Elizabeth Fitzpatrick -- Ninety Miles Away : Exile and Identity in Recent Cuban-American Dramas / Yael Prizant -- An American Mile in Others' Shoes : The Tragicomedy of Immigrating to the 21st Century U.S. / Diana Manole -- The American Landscape Reconsidered : On Theatricality of Urban America in the Russian Émigré Writings, with the special focus on Vasily Aksyonov's works / Yana Meerzon -- AMERICAN PERFORMATIVITY. Theatres in America: Brecht and Kafka / Freddie Rokem -- America Relocated : Karel Čapek's Robots between Prague, Berlin and New York / Veronika Ambros -- At Home in Exile : Finding America in Casablanca and Camino Real / Alan Ackerman -- AMERICA AND THE OTHER : FROM REPRESENTATION TO INTERVENTION. De-Territorializing Voices : Staging the Middle East in American Theatre / Erith Jaffe-Berg -- Current Trends in Arab-American Performance / Dalia Basiouny and Marvin Carlson -- Bombing (on) the Border : Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil as Transnational Agitprop / Jerry Wasserman -- Exiles and the City : Krzysztof Wodiczko's New York Interventions of Making the Familiar Strange / Silvija Jestrovic.
650 0 $aAmerican drama$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aExiles in literature.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIn literature.
650 0 $aImmigrants in literature.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration in literature.
650 0 $aOther (Philosophy) in literature.
650 0 $aAlienation (Social psychology) in literature.
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature.
650 0 $aTransnationalism in literature.
650 0 $aMinorities$zUnited States$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aTheater and society$zUnited States$y21st century.
700 1 $aJestrovic, Silvija,$d1970-
700 1 $aMeerzon, Yana.