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Staging Resistance: Essays on Political Theater (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) by Colleran, Jeanne M. (Jeanne Marie), 1954-; Spencer, Jenny S is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Staging Resistance: Essays on Political Theater (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) about?

Staging Resistance interrogates political performance in a variety of cultural and national contexts. The book's essays examine work by artists ranging from the Bread and Puppet Theatre to Thatre du Soleil to Athol Fugard to lesser-known grassroots organizations across the globe. The contributors' broad survey of work, as varied as the contexts in which it occurs, indicates that older paradigms for the study of political theater may no longer be viable. As the essays show, a wide variety of theoretical approaches and political assumptions must be actively and self-consciously negotiated in order to make sense of the theater's relevance to the social sphere. Focused studies of individual plays complement broad-based discussions of the place of theater in a radically democratic society. Staging Resistance is particularly strong in its concern with the intersection of gender and national politics; the collection specifically engages work by and about women in relation to broader geopolitical issues. Resisting the urge to be representative, the editors smartly highlight the divergent interests and concerns of authors who envision their work as an active form of cultural struggle. Th

Author

Colleran, Jeanne M. (Jeanne Marie), 1954-; Spencer, Jenny S

Publisher

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472066711

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, History