As human traffic between nations increases and as hybridity becomes more characteristic of cultural production, it becomes imperative to critically re-examine the way cultural exchange is performed. Theatre& Interculturalism surveys established approaches to the topic and proposes new ways of thinking about theatrical flow across cultures.

How are hybrid and diasporic identities performed in increasingly diverse societies? How can we begin to think differently about theatrical flow across cultures?

Interculturalism is an increasingly urgent topic in the 21st century. As human traffic between nations increases, it becomes imperative to critically re-examine the way cultural exchange is performed. Theatre& Interculturalism surveys established approaches and asks what it would mean to reconsider intercultural performance, not from the points of view of the colonizing cultures, but 'from below'- from the viewpoints of the historically colonized and marginalized.

Offers a way of understanding how, in increasingly diverse societies, hybrid and diasporic identities are performedPart of the successful Theatre And series

Autorentext

RIC KNOWLES is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Theatrical Interculturalism and its Discontents.- Theatre Has Always Been Intercultural.- Brecht and the Materialists.- Artaud and his Doubles: The Universalists.- The West and the Rest.- Decolonizing the Stage.- Critical Intersections.- Intercultural Performance Ecologies.- Conclusion.- Further Reading.