PERFORMANCE AND COSMOPOLITICS: CROSS-CULTURAL TRANSACTIONS IN AUSTRALASIA (STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE)

Helen Gilbert

ISBN 10: 023023402X / ISBN 13: 9780230234024

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PERFORMANCE AND COSMOPOLITICS: CROSS-CULTURAL TRANSACTIONS IN AUSTRALASIA (STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 023023402X
• ISBN 13: 9780230234024
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

This ground-breaking study of cross-cultural theatre in the Australasian region focuses on theatrical events and practices in avant-garde and mainstream contexts. It explores the cultural and political dimensions of Australia's engagement with Asia and sh

About the Author

HELEN GILBERT is Professor of Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and co-convenor of the College's interdisciplinary Postcolonial Research Group. Her books include Sightlines: Race, Gender and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre (1998), Post-colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics (with Joanne Tompkins, 1996) and Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology (2001).

JACQUELINE LO is Reader in English and Head of the School of Humanities at the Australian National University, Australia. She is the author of Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore (2004) and Chair of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network.