Screen LibraryPerforming the intercultural city /
"Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a representative global city in the first country in the world to adopt a policy of official multiculturalism--stages its diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. By examining the ways in which Indigenous, F...
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University of Michigan Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Ann Arbor, Michigan : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Theater--text/theory/performance. |
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| Summary: |
"Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a representative global city in the first country in the world to adopt a policy of official multiculturalism--stages its diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. By examining the ways in which Indigenous, Filipino, Latino/a and Afro-Caribbean Canadian theater in Toronto has developed play structures based on culturally specific forms of expression, Performing the Intercultural City analyzes the ways in which theater companies from a variety of marginalized communities of color in Toronto have worked across cultural difference to produce a new kind of intercultural performance"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780472073603 0472073605 9780472053605 0472053604 |
| Index Number: | PN2306 |
| CLC: | J809.711-05 |
| Call Number: | J809.711-05/K738 |