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

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312228156
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Edition description:	1st ed. 2000
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Claire Sponsler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa.

Xiaomei Chen is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literatures at Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

The Macaronic Stage—Marvin Carlson * On Making Things Korean: Western Drama and Local Tradition in Please Turn Out the Lights—Jinhee Kim

The Macaronic Stage—Marvin Carlson * On Making Things Korean: Western Drama and Local Tradition in Please Turn Out the Lights—Jinhee Kim

Editorial Reviews

The sensation and influence of the "other," whether Eastern in the West or Western in the East, is explored here in papers gathered by Sponsler (English, U. of Iowa) and Chen (Chinese and comparative literature, Ohio State U.). The authors (academics in English, comparative literature, film studies, Chinese and Asian literatures, and theater) write on medieval and Renaissance drama and triumphal entries, Korean plays, Chinese film and theater, and contemporary poetry, theater, and politics in discourse influenced by semiotics, Lacan, and reception theory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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