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Casting gender: women and performance in intercultural context/ edited by John T. Warren & Laura Lengel.

Contributor(s): Lengel, Laura B | Warren, John TMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Peter Lang, c2005Description: xii, 214 p.; 23 cmISBN: 0820474193 (pbk. : alk. paper)Other title: Women and performance in intercultural contextSubject(s): Women -- Identity | Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies | Feminism -- Cross-cultural studies | Communication and cultureDDC classification: 305.42

Contents:

1. Introduction: Casting Gender / Laura Lengel and John T. Warren -- 2. Theoretical Foundations and Intercultural Performance: (Re)Writing Nations on the Margins / E.J. Westlake -- 3. Native Women Playwrights: Cultural Historians, Revolutionary Healers / Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte -- 4. Fragments of Memory: Shadowboxing the Hyphen in Border Territory / Denise A. Menchaca -- 5. Maximum Intensity: Intercultural Performances of Doing Time / Jewel Seehaus-Fisher -- 6. Australia's Performing Older Women's Circus / Susan Hawthorne -- 7. A Cultural Performance of "Good" and "Bad": A Black "Hair-Story" / Leesha Marie Thrower -- 8. Breaking Frames and Burning Witches: From Local German Women to Intercultural Theatre / Alison M. Phipps -- 9. When White Girls Act Black: Reconsidering. Performances of Otherness / Elizabeth Whitney -- 10. Taking Ownership of 'Her indoors': Performativity as a Theatrical Dis-location of the British 'Housewife' / Helen Iball -- 11. Directing Performances of Border Crossing: An Allegory of Turnst(y)les / Amy K. Kilgard -- 12. Feminism and Performances in the Territory of ex-Yugoslavia / Marina Griznic -- 13. Casting into the Future / John T. Warren and Laura Lengel.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	305.42 LEN/C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P17817

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Casting Gender / Laura Lengel and John T. Warren --
2. Theoretical Foundations and Intercultural Performance: (Re)Writing Nations on the Margins / E.J. Westlake --
3. Native Women Playwrights: Cultural Historians, Revolutionary Healers / Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte --
4. Fragments of Memory: Shadowboxing the Hyphen in Border Territory / Denise A. Menchaca --
5. Maximum Intensity: Intercultural Performances of Doing Time / Jewel Seehaus-Fisher --
6. Australia's Performing Older Women's Circus / Susan Hawthorne --
7. A Cultural Performance of "Good" and "Bad": A Black "Hair-Story" / Leesha Marie Thrower --
8. Breaking Frames and Burning Witches: From Local German Women to Intercultural Theatre / Alison M. Phipps --
9. When White Girls Act Black: Reconsidering. Performances of Otherness / Elizabeth Whitney --
10. Taking Ownership of 'Her indoors': Performativity as a Theatrical Dis-location of the British 'Housewife' / Helen Iball --
11. Directing Performances of Border Crossing: An Allegory of Turnst(y)les / Amy K. Kilgard --
12. Feminism and Performances in the Territory of ex-Yugoslavia / Marina Griznic --
13. Casting into the Future / John T. Warren and Laura Lengel.

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