Not the Other Avant-garde

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-472-09931-3
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

The essays in this collection offer a radical reappraisal of the avant-garde by placing it within a much broader global context. The book questions the very assumptions that underlie the generally accepted chronology and theory of the avant-garde, and offer a bold new performance-based theory that moves beyond Eurocentric presup-positions. In ten essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading scholars and critics including Marvin Carlson, Supito Chatterjee, John Conteh-Morgan, Harry J. Elam, Jr., Joachim Fiebach, David G. Goodman, Jean Graham-Jones, Hanna Higgins, and Adam Versenyi discuss avant-garde performances in Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, Argentina, India, and Japan.

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Über Autor(innen)

James Harding is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. John Rouse is Associate Professor of Theater at the University of California-San Diego.