No safe spaces : re-casting race, ethnicity, and nationality in American theater /

Explores fifty years of non-traditional casting practices on the American stage and the questions of cultural identity that they have raised.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pao, Angela Chia-yi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Series:Theater--theory/text/performance.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Bearing the weight of reality : the theatricality of cross-racial corporeal encounters
  • Re-casting race : nontraditional casting and racial formation
  • Bodies like gardens : classical tragedy and comedy in color
  • Beyond type : re-casting modern drama and national identity
  • The theater, not the city : genre and politics in antirealistic drama
  • Chasing rainbows : re-casting race and ethnicity in the Broadway musical
  • Afterword.