Women's Intercultural Performance

by Holledge, Julie; Tompkins, Joanne

• ISBN13: 9780415173780
• ISBN10: 0415173787
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world. Contemporary feminist performance is explored in the contexts of current intercultural practices, theories and debates. Holledge and Tompkins provide ways of thinking about and analyzing contemporary performance and representations of the performing, female, culturally-marked body. The book includes discussions of ritual performance by women from Central Australia and Korea; the cultural exchange of A Doll's House and Antigone; plays from Algeria, South Africa and Ghana; the work of the Takarazuka revue company and the market forces that govern the distribution of women and women's performance. This is an essential read for anyone studying or interested in women's performance.

Author Biography

Julie Holledge is Professor of Drama and Director of the Drama Centre at the Flinders University of South Australia Joanne Tompkins teaches at the University of Queensland

Table of Contents

List of plates	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction: culture, feminism, theatre	1	(17)
Narrative trajectories: A Doll's House and Antigone	18	(38)
Ritual translocations: Kim Kum hwa and Warlpiri women	56	(31)
Layering space: staging and remembering `home'	87	(23)
Intercultural bodies: meetings in the flesh	110	(41)
Intercultural markets: the female body and censorship	151	(25)
Conclusion	176	(8)
Notes	184	(18)
References	202	(16)
Index	218