Overview

Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World presents a radical re-examination of the ways in which demographic shifts will impact theater and performance culture in the twenty-first century. Editor Chinua Thelwell brings together the revealing insights of artists, scholars, and organizers to produce a unique intersectional conversation about the transformative potential of theater. Opening with a case study of the New WORLD Theater and moving on to a fascinating range of essays, the book looks at five main themes: Changing demographics Future aesthetics Making institutional space Critical multiculturalism Polyculturalism

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Author:   Chinua Thelwell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781138929760

ISBN 10:   113892976
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   18 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Chinua Thelwell. Introduction. Section One: New WORLD Theater Elizabeth Mendez Berry. Fertile Ground: How New World Theater Began. Roberta Uno. Steps Towards a New World. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials. ""Imagining"" and ""Restaging"" Otherwise: New WORLD Theater, Memory Work, and Multiculturalist Critique."" Gary Y. Okihiro. Third World Studies. Esther Kim Lee. All the Stage’s a World: The Organization of International, Multicultural, and Global Theater Companies in the U.S. Paul Bonin-Rodriguez. HOMES at the ends of the WORLD: Repertoires of Access and Agency Out of New WORLD Theater (1979-2009). Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns. Imagining a ""New WORLD"": Asian American Women Playwrights Archives in Western Massachusetts. Section Two: New World Futures: Changing Demographics, Polyculturalism, and Future Aesthetics. Michael John Garcés. Beyond Demographics: Cornerstone, New WORLD, INTAR and the Theater of the Possible. James Kass. Life as Primary Text :Youth Speaks Through the New World. Daniel Banks. Hip-Hop as Pedagogy: The Hip Hop Theater Initiative. Jasmine Mahmoud. An Uncharted Persistence: Alternative Minoritarian Theater in Austere Chicago. Will Powers. Whose Space is it Anyway? Hanay Geiogamah. A Future For American Indian Theater? Joe Schloss. Culture, Ethnicity and the Inherent Theater of Hip-Hop. Mark Valdez. The Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET). lê thi diem thúy. Art is A Song of Freedom. Jeff Chang. ""Not A Prophecy, But Description"": Rethinking Multiculturalism in the ""Post-Racial"" Moment. Afterword Bill Rauch. Afterword."

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Chinua Thelwell is an assistant professor of History and Africana Studies at the College of William and Mary. His research focuses on the racial politics of performance in the Atlantic world.

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