Arabs, Politics, and Performance

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-22546-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre.

Through three sections discussing occupation and resistance, diaspora, migration, and refugees, and nationalism and belonging, this study provides nuanced responses to the contested points of intersection between Arab culture and the West, as well as many of the major concerns within contemporary Arab theatre. The collection draws together scholars from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and the United States who write about Arab theatre and the representation of Arabs on European and American stages. It introduces concerns in contemporary Arab theatre, the regions in which Arab theatre is performed, and the issues with representations of Arabs onstage.

This volume will be of great significance for those interested in expanding the range of global, postcolonial, African, Asian, or diasporic theatre that they study, teach, or stage.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ali, Roaa

Potter, George

Al-Saber, Samer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Identity and Resistance 1. Historiographical Conundrums in Palestinian Theatre Research 2. The Iraqi Home/Land under Siege: House as Metaphor in Abdul Razaq Al-Rubai’s A Strange Bird on Our Roof 3. Palestinian Theatre: Alienation, Mediation, and Assimilation in Cross-Cultural Research and Practice 4. Across Borders and Thresholds: Shakespeare’ Othello and Hamlet in the Arab World 5. The Maghreb on the American Stage: The "Barbary Wars" in Post-Independence US Theatre 6. Censorship and Creativity in Syrian Theatre: Sa'dallah Wannous’ A Soirée for the Fifth of June, The King’s Elephant, and The King Is King Part 2 Diaspora, Migration, and Refugees 7. Strategies of Resistance: Arab American Dramatic Devices in the Battle Against Anti-Arab Stereotypes 8. Postmemory Nostalgia in Service of Nationalism 9. ‘Can Everyone Hear Me?’: Arab Digital Performance and Border Crossing on UK Stages 10. Arab Voices on the European Stage: Between Fact and Fiction, Memory and Imagination 11. Arab Muslim Stand-up and North American Religious Identities 12. The Predicaments of Production: Public Discourse, Artistic Process, and Audience Response in Contemporary Arab American Theatre Part 3 Nationalism and Belonging 13. Stable Instability: Performing National Identity in Amman 14. Globalisation LIVE! Arab Performance as Corporate Goodwill? 15. Sharjah Desert as a Site-Specific Theatrical Venue 16. The Manifest Absence of Religion in Modern Egyptian Drama: The Case of Alfred Farag 17. Arabs/Muslims on American Stages: Foils for American Adventurism 18. From the Karagoz to Ragi: Nasser as the Patron of an Indigenous Egyptian Political Theatre

Über Autor(innen)

Roaa Ali is Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester, UK.

George Potter is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Walter G. Friedrich Professor of American Literature at Valparaiso University, Indiana, USA.

Samer Al-Saber is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford University, USA. He is a member of the faculty at the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.