Embodying Transformation

Name: Embodying Transformation
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781922235886
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Transcultural Performance

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Embodying Transformation presents a compelling collection of essays that delve into transcultural events to uncover the power and complexity of performance across diverse national and cultural boundaries. By examining both historical and contemporary public performances, the book offers insightful readings of interactions between European, Asian, African, Middle Eastern cultures, and their colonial and postcolonial contexts. The contributors thoughtfully explore themes such as aesthetics, cultural anxieties, cultural control, and how intentions shape practice.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in cultural studies, performance arts, postcolonial theory, and transcultural exchanges. It appeals especially to academics, students, and practitioners in education and the arts seeking deeper understanding of global performance phenomena.

The essays in this collection explore transcultural events to reveal deeper understandings of the dynamic nature, power and effect of performance as it is created and witnessed across national and cultural boundaries. Focusing on historical and contemporary public events in multiple contexts, the contributors offer readings of transcultural exchang

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The essays in this collection explore transcultural events to reveal deeper understandings of the dynamic nature, power, and effect of performance as it is created and witnessed across national and cultural boundaries. Focusing on historical and contemporary public events in multiple contexts, the contributors offer readings of transcultural exchanges between European countries, Asian countries, former colonies to Europe, African to Middle Eastern, colonisers and colonists to colonised peoples and back again.

In the process, Embodying Transformation explores questions around issues of aesthetics, cultural anxieties, cultural control, and the effect of intentions on practice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922235886

Publisher: Monash University Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2015

Country: Australia

Imprint: Monash University Publishing

Illustration: 12 illus

Contributors:

Edited by Maryrose Casey

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 367g

Pages: 232

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Maryrose Casey is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow with the Monash University Indigenous Centre. Her major publications include Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre (UQP 2004), Transnational Whiteness Matters (Rowan Littlefield 2008) co-edited with Aileen Moreton-Robinson and Fiona Nicoll and Telling Stories: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Performance (2012 ASP).