National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion (Cultural Spaces) - Hardcover

Hurley, Professor Erin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442640952 ISBN 13: 9781442640955

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2010

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In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ness' for audiences both within and outside the province? In exploring Expo 67, the critical response to Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs, Carbone 14's image-theatre, Marco Micone's writing practices, Celine Dion's popular music, and feminist performance of the 1970s and 80s, Hurley reveals the ways in which certain performances come to be understood as 'national' while others are relegated to sub-national or outsider status. Each chapter focuses on a particular historical moment in Quebec's modern history and a genre of performance emblematic of the moment, and uses these to elaborate the nature of the national performances.

Winner of the Northeast Modern Language Association's Book Prize, National Performance is sophisticated yet accessible, seeking to enlarge the parameters of what counts as 'Quebecois' performance, while providing a thorough introduction to changing discourses of nation-ness in Quebec.

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Erin Hurley is a professor of drama and theatre in the Department of English at McGill University.

Erin Hurley is an associate professor of drama and theatre in the Department of English at McGill University.

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• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1442640952
• ISBN 13: 9781442640955
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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