Gender in Asian Shakespeare

Towards Intercultural Feminism
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-89055-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

is the first full-length study of gender in East and Southeast Asian productions of  Shakespeare’s plays. Resituating gender theory within new performance contexts, forms and communities, this book explores the ways in which performances of gender produce the terms through which intercultural engagements with Shakespeare take place. By doing so, it explores the possibilities and complications that emerge when theatre practitioners stage gender representations and relations as they negotiate with Shakespeare’s legacy in their theatre practices.  Across its chapters, this book proposes new ways for thinking about feminist theories in non-Western performances and contexts—even as it remains informed and influenced by feminist theories originating from within the West—and envisions future opportunities for theorising feminism  through negotiations with intercultural theatre performances of Shakespeare’s plays in Asia. Informed by Western feminist thought, this book offers analyses of non-Western performances and contexts, but envisions new heterogeneous approaches to theorising feminism through engagements with intercultural theatre performances of Shakespeare’s plays in Asia.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yip, Roweena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 01: Introduction.- Chapter 02: Witnessing the Performance of Memory and Female Subjectivities in Othello in Noh Style and Lady Macbeth.- Chapter 03: Reading Cross-Gender Performances: A Case Study of Two  .- Chapter 04: Intercultural Relationships between Femininity and Korean Shaman Practice in Uruwang and Yohangza’s Hamlet.- Chapter 05: Gender Ambiguity and the Weird Sisters.- Chapter 06: Intercultural Partnership and the Performance of Gender Relations in Romeo at Julieta.- Chapter 07: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Roweena Yip  is a Lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her PhD in Theatre Studies from NUS, having completed her Masters and undergraduate degrees at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research has been published in   and  . She is also Assistant Director of the  (A|S|I|A)