Staging Place : The Geography of Modern Drama Paperback / softback
by Una Chaudhuri
Part of the Theater: Theory/Text/Performance series
Paperback / softback
Description
Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama reimagines the content and continuities of theater history and exposes underlying dialogues between "home and homelessness, belonging and exile"—a century-long struggle with the meaning and power of place, which the author terms "geopathology." By reading canonical works in conjunction with contemporary ones, Chaudhuri charts the evolution of a dramatic paradigm with profound theatrical and thematic implications. Chaudhuri starts with a discussion of a "poetics of exile" in early modern drama, where the figure of home is constructed as a locus of two conflicting impulses: the desire to find a stable site for individual identity and the desire to deterritorialize the self.
By mid-century, she argues, a new discourse of "failed homecoming" begins to displace this geopathic model and replace the poetics of exile with a grim anti-poetics of immigration.
She then employs postmodern and postcolonial theories of place and culture to define the emerging multiculturalism as a creative reworking of the figures of home, homecoming, homelessness, immigration and exile.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:30/04/1997
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- ISBN:9780472065899
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:30/04/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780472065899
