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001 2005007322
003 DLC
005 20100622140153.0
008 050317s2005 ncu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005007322
020 $a0786422041 (softcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPN2042$b.S72 2005
082 00 $a792$222
245 00 $aStaging nationalism :$bessays on theatre and national identity /$cedited by Kiki Gounaridou.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Co.,$cc2005.
300 $aviii, 235 p. ;$c23 cm.
520 $a"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. This collection of essays discusses the relationship between political power and the construction or subversion of cultural identity"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aTheatre and nationalism / Kiki Gounaridou -- Reconstructing the nation / Natalya Baldyga -- Celebrating the revolution while the king is still on the throne / Scott Magelssen -- Athenian prologue to an American theatre / Gary Jay Williams -- Herder and European theatre / S.E. Wilmer -- Historical avant-garde performance and Japanese nationalism / David Pellegrini -- Remembering and forgetting / Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei -- The critical absence of Indonesia in W.S. Rendra's Village / Evan Darwin Winet, Robert Lepage, Karen Fricker -- Staging the nation on the ruins of the past / Patricia Ybarra -- The corpse of Algerian identity / Susan Haedicke.
650 0 $aTheater and state.
650 0 $aNationalism.
700 1 $aGounaridou, Kiki.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005007322.html