Transgressive Itineraries: Postcolonial Hybridizations of Dramatic Realism (Dramaturgies)

Marc Maufort

ISBN 10: 9052011788 / ISBN 13: 9789052011783

Published by P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., �ditions Scientifiques Internationales, 2006

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2006. paperback. Pap. Minor shelf wear. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Else a bright, clean copy. Very Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transgressive Itineraries: Postcolonial Hybridizations of Dramatic Realism (Dramaturgies)
• Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., �ditions Scientifiques Internationales
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9052011788
• ISBN 13: 9789052011783
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Used - Very Good
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

The Author: Marc Maufort is a professor of English-language literatures at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). He is the author of Songs of American Experience: The Vision of O’Neill and Melville (1990), as well as the editor or co-editor of Staging Difference. Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama (1995), Siting the Other: Re-visions of Marginality in Australian and English-Canadian Drama (2001), and Crucible of Cultures: Anglophone Drama at the Dawn of a New Millennium (2002).