Performance, Exile and 'america' - (Studies in International Performance) by S Jestrovic & Y Meerzon (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This collection investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place particularly focusing on issues of language, space and identity. It looks at ways in which immigrants and outsiders are embodied in American theatre practice and explores ways in which 'America' is staged and dramatized by immigrants and foreigners.

Review Quotes

'a fresh critical perspective on exilic discourse...This collection introduces a stimulating approach to understanding the diversity of exilic experiences, emphasizing that the ways in which exile is experienced in reality and fantasy cannot be exhausted in a single collection.' - Contemporary Theatre Review

About the Author

ALAN ACKERMAN Associate Professor, English Department, University of Toronto, Canada VERONIKA AMBROS Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto, Canada DALIA BASIOUNY Artist, academic, translator and newscaster MARVIN CARLSON Sidney E. Cohn Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA LISA FITZPATRICK Lecturer in Drama, University of Ulster, UK ERITH JAFFE-BERG Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, University of California, Riverside, USA DIANA MANOLE Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto, Canada YAEL PRIZANT Assistant Professor, Department of Film, Television and Theatre, University of Notre Dame, USA FREDDIE ROKEM Professor, Department of Theatre Arts, Tel-Aviv University, Israel JERRY WASSERMAN Professor of English and Theatre and Head of the Department of Theatre and Film, University of British Columbia, Canada