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Decolonizing the stage : theatrical syncretism and post-colonial drama
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Decolonizing the stage : theatrical syncretism and post-colonial drama

Author: Christopher B Balme
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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"Decolonizing the Stage is a major study devoted to post-colonial drama and theatre. It examines the way dramatists and directors from various countries and societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their indigenous traditions with the Western dramatic form. These experiments are termed 'syncretic theatre'. The study provides a theoretically sophisticated, cross-cultural comparative approach to a  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher B Balme
ISBN: 0198184441 9780198184447
OCLC Number: 39655593
Description: xiv, 304 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Indigenous Theories of Syncretic Theatre --
2. Ritual Frames and Liminal Dramaturgy --
3. Language and the Post-Colonial Stage --
4. Orality as Performance --
5. Visualizing the Body --
6. Dance and Body Language --
7. Spaces and Spectators.
Responsibility: Christopher B. Balme.
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Since major studies of post-colonial drama are scarce, as are attempts to place Indian drama in a global context, we can be doubly grateful to Christopher Balme for his excellent book. Years Work in Read more...

 
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