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Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary (Contemporary Performance InterActions) by Marcus Cheng Chye Tan; Charlene Rajendran is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary is an important reconsideration of the histories and practices of theatre and performance in a fluid and dynamic region that is also experiencing an overarching politics of complexity, precarity and populist authoritarian tendencies.  In a substantial introductory essay and essays by leading scholars, activists and practitioners working inside the region, the book explores fundamental questions for the arts.  The book asks how theatre contributes to and/or addresses the political condition in the contemporary moment, how does it represent the complexity of experiences in peoples’ daily lives and how does theatre engage in forms of political activism and enable a diversity of voices to flourish.  The book shows how, in an age of increasingly violent politics, political institutions become sites for bad actors and propaganda.  Forces of biopolitics, neo-liberalism and religious and ethnic nationalism intersect in unpredictable ways with decolonial practices – all of which the book argues are forces that define the contemporary moment.  Indeed, by putting the focus on contemporary politics in the region alongside th

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Author

Marcus Cheng Chye Tan; Charlene Rajendran

Publisher

Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030346867

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology