Synopses & Reviews
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 and 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.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
RIC KNOWLES is a professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is currently Vice President of the American Society for Theatre Research, and Vice President (Research and Publications) of ATHE. He is Editor of Canadian Theatre Review and former editor (1999-2005) of Modern Drama, author of The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning (1999), Shakespeare and Canada (2004) and Reading the Material Theatre (2004); co-editor of Modern Drama: Defining the Field (2003, with Joanne Tompkins and W.B. Worthen), and editor of Theatre in Atlantic Canada (1986), Judith Thompson (2005), and The Masks of Judith Thompson (2006). He is the General Editor of the book series, Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre, has been Managing Editor of Essays in Theatre and Chair of the Management board of Theatre Research in Canada, and is a member of the Editorial Boards of Canadian Literature, Critical Studies in Improvisation, Essays in Theatre, Modern Drama, New Dawn Journal of Black Canadian Studies, Peter Lang International Dramaturgies Series, the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project, Internet Shakespeare Editions, Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble, and Playwrights Canada Press.