Performing Asian transnationalisms theatre, identity and the geographies of performance

• Main Author: Rogers, Amanda 1981- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2015
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies 36
• Subjects: Theater > Foreign influences > Asia; Theater > Asia
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• Physical Description: x, 251 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-244) and index
• ISBN: 9780415854382

This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses the cross-border relationships that exist within and between Asian American, British East Asian, and South East Asian theatres, investigating the effect of transnationalism on the construction of identity, the development of creative praxis, and the reception of works in different social fields. This book therefore examines how practitioners engage with one another across borders, and details the cross-cultural performances, creative opportunities, and political alliances that result. By viewing ethnic minority theatres as part of global - rather than simply national - cultural fields, Rogers argues that transnational relationships take multiple forms and have varying impetuses that cannot always be equated to diasporic longing for a homeland or as strategically motivated for economic gain.