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  title info:
    title: Performance, exile and 'America'
  name:
    name part: Jestrovic, Silvija
    name part: 1970-
  name:
    name part: Meerzon, Yana.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 266 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "This collection of essays investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place, investigating how 'America' and exile are imagined, challenged and theatricalized in the works of various theatre artists in the light of the current political climate in the USA"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction : Framing "America" : Between Exilic Imaginary and Exilic Collective / Silvija Jestrovic & Yana Meerzon -- "AMERICA" BETWEEN THE EXILIC IMAGINARY AND THE EXILIC COLLECTIVE. Land of Air-conditioning and Opportunity : America on the Irish Stage / Elizabeth Fitzpatrick -- Ninety Miles Away : Exile and Identity in Recent Cuban-American Dramas / Yael Prizant -- An American Mile in Others' Shoes : The Tragicomedy of Immigrating to the 21st Century U.S. / Diana Manole -- The American Landscape Reconsidered : On Theatricality of Urban America in the Russian Émigré Writings, with the special focus on Vasily Aksyonov's works / Yana Meerzon -- AMERICAN PERFORMATIVITY. Theatres in America: Brecht and Kafka / Freddie Rokem -- America Relocated : Karel Čapek's Robots between Prague, Berlin and New York / Veronika Ambros -- At Home in Exile : Finding America in Casablanca and Camino Real / Alan Ackerman -- AMERICA AND THE OTHER : FROM REPRESENTATION TO INTERVENTION. De-Territorializing Voices : Staging the Middle East in American Theatre / Erith Jaffe-Berg -- Current Trends in Arab-American Performance / Dalia Basiouny and Marvin Carlson -- Bombing (on) the Border : Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil as Transnational Agitprop / Jerry Wasserman -- Exiles and the City : Krzysztof Wodiczko's New York Interventions of Making the Familiar Strange / Silvija Jestrovic.
  note: edited by Silvija Jestrovic and Yana Meerzon.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: American drama
    topic: Minority authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Exiles in literature
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants in literature
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration in literature
  subject:
    topic: Other (Philosophy) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Transnationalism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Minorities
    geographic: United States
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: Theater and society
    geographic: United States
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: PS153.M56 P47 2009
  classification: 822/.509355
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in international performance
  identifier: 9780230574564 (hardback)
  identifier: 0230574564 (hardback)
  identifier: 2009044070
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 091019
    record change date: 20151113142543.0
    record identifier: in00002541658