Asian Canadian Theatre New Essays on Canadian Theatre Vol. 1

Name: Asian Canadian Theatre New Essays on Canadian Theatre Vol. 1
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ISBN: 9780887549861

ISBN-10: 0887549861

ISBN-13: 9780887549861

Edition: 2011

Authors: Nina Lee Aquino, Ric Knowles

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This is the first book to consider the formation, history, and practice of Asian Canadian theatre.

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Publication date: 9/20/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.97" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Nina Lee Aquino is a director, dramaturge, and playwright. She is Artistic Director of Cahoots Theatre Company and Artistic Associate of the Factory Theatre. Nina co-wrote

KAREN BAMFORD is the Charles and Joseph Allison Chair of English Language and Literatures at Mount Allison University.RIC KNOWLES is a professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Guelph.



General Editor's Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction to Asian Canadian Theatre



Enunciating Asian Canadian Drama



Performing Asian Canadlin: The Theatrical Dimension of a Grassroots Activism



Is There an Asian Canadian Theatre in Vancouver?



Homeland Under Attack: Looking for a New Theatrical Paradigm in Asian Americas



Performing Traditions and Diasporic Efforts: The Kunqu Society and Little Pear Garden Collective



On Being an Elder Statesperson



"Patient Zero": Jean Yoon and Korean Canadian Theatre



Reflections on the "Roots" Panel and "The Generational Divide"



Le Rugissement du Lion: Mapping and Memory in Montreal's Chinese/Canadian Street Theatre



Hybridity



Asian Canadian Performance and the Politics of Misrecognition



Sketching Subversion: Improv and the Representation of Race in Asian Canadian Comic Performances



Toronto: Don't Be an Asshole



The CBT Collective: Toward a Filipino Canadian Dramaturgy



Nightwood Theatre, Asian Canadian Women, and China Doll: The Ties That Bind



Asian Canadian Footprints in Edmonton's Concrete Theatre



Regional Artists/Racialized Spaces



Manipulating Theatrical Space to Create Physical Place: Betty Quan's Mother Tongue Reclaiming Space for the Individual



Performing Asian Canadian Intimacy: Theatre Replacement's bloboxes and awkward multiculturalisms



Jade in the Coal and the Performance of Theatrical Interculturalism



Acting Asian



Affect, Family, and the Past in Two Plays



Kai-dai; Staging Queer Subjectivity in Winston Christopher Kam's Bachelor-Man



Works Cited


Notes on Contributors


Index