Transgressive Itineraries: Postcolonial Hybridizations of Dramatic Realism (Dramaturgies, Texts, Cultures and Performances) - Softcover
The fast-growing body of postcolonial drama is progressively gaining its just recognition in the twentieth-century canon of English-language plays. From the vantage point of various samplings along the Trans-Pacific axis linking English Canada, Australia and New Zealand, this monograph seeks to document the significance of this emerging postcolonial theater. More specifically, it examines the myriad ways in which, over the last two decades, representative mainstream, ethnic and First Nations playwrights have dramatized Europe's « Other in its multiple guises. In their efforts to match new content with innovative form, these artists have followed transgressive itineraries, redrawing the boundaries of conventional Western stage realism. Their new aesthetics often relies on techniques akin to Homi Bhabha's notions of hybridity and mimicry. The present study offers detailed analyses of the modes of hybridization through which Judith Thompson, Louis Nowra, Tomson Highway, Jack Davis, Hone Kouka, and other prominent writers have articulated subtle forms of psychic, grotesque, and mythic magic realism. Their legacy will undoubtedly affect the postcolonial dramaturgies of the twenty-first century.
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About the Author:
Marc Maufort is a Professor of English, American and postcolonial literature at the University of Brussels. He is the author of two monographs: Songs of American Experience. The Vision of O'Neill and Melville (1990), and Transgressive Itineraries. Postcolonial Hybridizations of Dramatic Realism (2003). He has edited or co-edited a number of critical anthologies, including Performing Aotearoa. New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition (2007).
Review:
«Maufort’s accessible close readings of the plays, and his adoption of a clearly articulated postcolonial discourse, make this book suitable for undergraduate teaching, and for researchers in need of an introductory text.» (The Year’s Work in English Studies)
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- PublisherPeter Lang Publishing
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0820466018
- ISBN 13 9780820466019
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages250
- EditorMaufort Marc
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