Jestrovic, Silvija
Performance, Exile and ‘America’
1. Introduction: Framing ‘America’ — Between
Silvija Jestrovic, Yana Meerzon
Part 1. ‘America’ Between the Exilic Imaginary and the Exilic Collective
2. The Land of Air-Conditioning and Opportunity: America on the Irish Stage
Lisa Fitzpatrick
3. Ninety Miles Away: Exile and Identity in Recent Cuban-American Theatre
Yael Prizant
4. “An American Mile in Others’ Shoes”: The Tragicomedy of Immigrating to the Twenty-First-Century United States
Diana Manole
5. The American Landscape Reconsidered: On the Theatricality of Urban America in Russian Émigré Writings, with Special Focus on the Works of Vasily Aksyonov
Yana Meerzon
Part 2. American Performativity
6. Theatres in America: Brecht and Kafka
Freddie Rokem
7. America Relocated: Karel Čapek’s Robots between Prague, Berlin, and New York
Veronika Ambros
8. At Home in Exile: Finding America in
Alan Ackerman
Part 3. America and the Other: From Representation to Intervention
9. Deterritorializing Voices: Staging the Middle East in American Theatre
Erith Jaffe-Berg
10. Current Trends in Arab-American Performance
Dalia Basiouny, Marvin Carlson
11. “We know you’re not Somalia”: Radical Performance and Canadian-American Exile in
Jerry Wasserman
12. Exiles and the City: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s New York Interventions of Making the Familiar Strange
Silvija Jestrovic
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Social History, Cultural History, Theatre and Performance Studies, North American Literature, Cultural Studies
- Editor
- Jestrovic, Silvija
- Meerzon, Yana
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Studies in International Performance
- Page amount
- 279 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230250703
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-36535-7