Staging Nation

Staging Nation
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Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9789622096875
ISBN-13 : 9622096875
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Download or read book Staging Nation written by Jacqueline Lo and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Nation examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation building in postcolonial Malaysia and Singapore. In less than fifty years, locally written and produced English language theatre has managed to shrug off its colonial shackles to become an important site of community expression. This groundbreaking comparative study discusses the role of creative writing and the act of performance as actual political acts and as interventions in national self-constructions. It argues that certain forms of theatre can be read as emerging oppositional cultures that contribute towards the deepening of democracy by offering contending narratives of the nation. Jacqueline Lo is Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities, Australian National University. She has published widely on postcolonial theory, performance studies and Asian-Australian cultural politics. She is the editor of Theatre in Southeast Asia, and co-editor of Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia.


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