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  title info:
    title: Recasting transnationalism through performance
    sub title: theatre festivals in Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Brazil
  name:
    name part: McMahon, Christina S.
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of a lively Portuguese-language theatre festival circuit, where Brazilian, Portuguese and Lusophone African artists come together and jointly negotiate the cultural dynamics of an emerging transnational community grounded in a common language and shared colonial histories. Christina S. McMahon trains a sharp ethnographic eye on African performances staged at these festivals, revealing how festival productions and their aftermath can generate new perspectives on race and gender, colonial trauma and the economics of cultural globalization. Featuring in-depth analysis of performances and artist interviews from Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, countries with vibrant theatre practices and vexed colonial pasts, the book reveals how international festivals can be valuable platforms for new intercultural dialogues and diplomatic possibilities. Recasting Transnationalism through Performance offers a fresh look at the role of theater in navigating new postcolonial realities.
  table of contents: Introduction: Global Casting Calls: Performing (Trans)National Identity On Festival Circuits -- 1. Mapping Festivals: Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Brazil in the Lusophone World -- 2. Recasting the Colonial Past: History, Imagination, and Fantasy on Festival Stages -- 3. African Women on Festival Circuits: Recasting Labor Roles and Female Sexuality -- 4. Adaptation and the (Trans)Nation: Creolized Shakespeare, Intercultural Cervantes -- 5. Toward a Conclusion: Forum Theatre in Festival Venues.
  note: Christina S. McMahon, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: f-mz---
    geographic code: s-bl---
  subject:
    topic: Drama festivals
    geographic: Cape Verde
  subject:
    topic: Drama festivals
    geographic: Mozambique
  subject:
    topic: Drama festivals
    geographic: Brazil
  subject:
    topic: Theater and society
    geographic: Cape Verde
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Theater and society
    geographic: Mozambique
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Theater and society
    geographic: Brazil x History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / General
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
  classification: PN1643 .M38 2014
  classification: 792.079
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in international performance
  identifier: 9781137006806 (hardback)
  identifier: 1137006803 (hardback)
  identifier: 2013044173
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131115
    record change date: 20151206091256.0
    record identifier: in00003428656