East of West : Cross-Cultural Performance and the Staging of Difference

by Sponsler, Claire

• ISBN13: 9780312228156
• ISBN10: 0312228155
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-11-11
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This ambitious collection offers an innovative look at crosscultural theatrical exchanges. Overturning the argument that Western culture has been imposed on subject cultures in favor of the paradigm of exchange, East of West examines the rich intersection of East and West in film, television shows, stage plays, and operas from a range of countries. The essays show how the East not only has resisted the cultural imperialism of the West but has transformed Western culture into local tradition at the same time as Western performances have poached images, themes, and characters from the East. The essays provide a lively glimpse of creative hybridization and crosscultural adaptation, as East meets West on the world's stages.

Author Biography

Claire Sponsler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa.

Xiaomei Chen is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literatures at Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
Claire Sponsler
PART I. TEXTUAL BORDER CROSSING: LINGUISTIC, SEMIOTIC, PERFORMATIVE
The Macaronic Stage	15	(18)
Marvin Carlson
Concrete Poetry and the New Performance Arts: Intersemiotic, Intermedia, Intercultural	33	(30)
Claus Cluver
Vulfolaic the Stylite: Orientalism and Performing Holiness in Gregory's Histories	63	(14)
Karen A. Winstead
PART II. OCCIDENT MEETS ORIENT: NATION, STATE, AND LOCAL TRADITION
``Strange and Exotic'': Representing the Other in Medieval and Renaissance Performance	77	(16)
Kathleen M. Ashley
On Making Things Korean: Western Drama and Local Tradition in Yi Man-hui's Please Turn Out the Lights	93	(18)
Jinhee Kim
Representing the Chinese Nation-State in Filmic Discourse	111	(14)
Sheldon H. Lu
The Making of a Revolutionary Stage: Chinese Model Theatre and Its Western Influences	125	(18)
Xiaomei Chen
PART III. CROSSING OTHER BORDERS: THE POLITICS OF CO-OPTATION
King Kong in Johannesburg: Popular Theatre and Public Protest in 1950s South Africa	143	(24)
Cynthia Erb
Traveling Players: Brazilians in the Rouen Entry of 1550	167	(20)
Claire Sponsler
South of North: Carmen and French Nationalisms	187	(30)
Robert L. A. Clark
Contributors	217	(2)
Select Bibliography	219	(7)
Index	226

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