Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) - Hardcover

Chaudhuri, Una

 
9780472095896: Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0472095897 ISBN 13: 9780472095896
Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2018

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Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama reimagines the content and continuities of theater history and exposes underlying dialogues between "home and homelessness, belonging and exile"--a century-long struggle with the meaning and power of place, which the author terms "geopathology." By reading canonical works in conjunction with contemporary ones, Chaudhuri charts the evolution of a dramatic paradigm with profound theatrical and thematic implications.
Chaudhuri starts with a discussion of a "poetics of exile" in early modern drama, where the figure of home is constructed as a locus of two conflicting impulses: the desire to find a stable site for individual identity and the desire to deterritorialize the self. By mid-century, she argues, a new discourse of "failed homecoming" begins to displace this geopathic model and replace the poetics of exile with a grim anti-poetics of immigration. She then employs postmodern and postcolonial theories of place and culture to define the emerging multiculturalism as a creative reworking of the figures of home, homecoming, homelessness, immigration and exile.
"This is a book of real originality. Its treatment of space in modern drama is elegant and powerful. . . ." --William B. Worthen, Northwestern University
"Staging Place is a powerfully written book, deft in its handling of familiar and unfamiliar plays alike and eclectic in its use of theatrical sources." --Essays in Theatre/ Études théâtrales
"This sophisticated and well-written study for graduate students and their teachers explores modern drama's preoccupation with the seemingly irreconcilable discontinuities between the notions of home and homelessness, belonging and exile. . . . The readings of individual plays are fresh and invigorating. . . ." --Choice
Una Chaudhuri is Associate Professor of English, New York University.

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Una Chauduri is Chair of the Department of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts and Associate Professor of English, New York University.

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Verlag
The University of Michigan Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0472095897
ISBN 13 
9780472095896
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Anzahl der Seiten
328
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