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

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction (Claire Sponsler)....Pages 1-12 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 The Macaronic Stage (Marvin Carlson)....Pages 15-31 Concrete Poetry and the New Performance Arts: Intersemiotic, Intermedia, Intercultural (Claus Clüver)....Pages 33-61 Vulfolaic the Stylite: Orientalism and Performing Holiness in Gregory’s Histories (Karen A. Winstead)....Pages 63-73 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 “Strange and Exotic”: Representing the Other in Medieval and Renaissance Performance (Kathleen M. Ashley)....Pages 77-91 On Making Things Korean: Western Drama and Local Tradition in Yi Man-hûi’s Please Turn Out the Lights (Jinhee Kim)....Pages 93-110 Representing the Chinese Nation-State in Filmic Discourse (Sheldon H. Lu)....Pages 111-123 The Making of a Revolutionary Stage: Chinese Model Theatre and Its Western Influences (Xiaomei Chen)....Pages 125-140 Front Matter ....Pages 141-141 King Kong in Johannesburg: Popular Theatre and Political Protest in 1950s South Africa (Cynthia Erb)....Pages 143-165 Traveling Players: Brazilians in the Rouen Entry of 1550 (Claire Sponsler)....Pages 167-186 South of North: Carmen and French Nationalisms (Robert L. A. Clark)....Pages 187-216 Back Matter ....Pages 217-230