| Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance Contributor(s): Harding, James M. (Editor), Rouse, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0472069314 ISBN-13: 9780472069316 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $38.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 792.022 |
| LCCN: 2005033818 |
| Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.06 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |