The Color of Theater: Race, Culture and Contemporary Performance (Continuum Collection)

Uno, Roberta [Editor]; Burns, Lucy Mae San Pablo [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0826478816 / ISBN 13: 9780826478818

Published by Continuum, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Color of Theater: Race, Culture and Contemporary Performance (Continuum Collection)
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826478816
• ISBN 13: 9780826478818
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 24 ounces

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Synopsis

The Color of Theater presents a range of essays, interviews and performance texts that illustrate and examine the process, evolution and dynamics of making theater in the dawning moments of the 21st century. It brings together writings by artists, intellectuals and art activists exploring contemporary practices within multicultural, intercultural and ethnically specific theaters. This provocative and dynamic resource brings forth critical issues of cultural aesthetics engaging theatre as a crucial site for examining the intricate intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality and national and global politics.

Contributors include Rustom Bharucha, Thulani Davis, Harry Elam, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Velina Hasu Huston, Cherríe Moraga, David Román, Sekou Sundiata, Diana Taylor, Una Chaudhuri, Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and lê thi diem thúy.

About the Authors

Roberta Uno is Assistant Professor of Theater at the University of Massachusetts and Artistic Director of New World Theater.

Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns is a Doctoral Candidate in the American Studies Program, English Department, at the University of Massachusetts.