Performing Identities on the Stages of Quebec

MacDougall, Jill R.

ISBN 10: 0820430048 / ISBN 13: 9780820430041

Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International A, 1997

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0003448459

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Performing Identities on the Stages of Quebec
• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International A
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0820430048
• ISBN-13: 9780820430041
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Performing Identities on the Stages of Quebec explores the poetics and politics of Québécois identity. Considering the stage as a metaphor of virtual communities and performance as a privileged moment of collective identity rituals, this study centers on three productions from the national, local, and international stages: the Saint Jean or national holiday; Salut vieille branche! a street-theatre parody on genealogical roots; Tectonic Plates, a bicontinental work in progress. Through multiple voices and theatrical framings, these performances from Quebec address the problem of minority nationalism at the close of the twentieth century.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The Author: As a theatre practitioner, translator of francophone plays, and cultural politics scholar, Jill Mac Dougall has worked in Europe, Africa, and North America for over thirty years. She holds degrees in Applied Linguistics, Art Dramatique, and Performance Studies. In addition to numerous translations, she has published theatre reviews and essays in French and English on performance and identity in Zaire and Quebec, and is coeditor of Contaminating Theatre: Intersections of Theatre, Therapy, and Public Health. She is currently teaching theatre and acting with Pennsylvania State University and serving as Artistic Director of the Women's Theatre Festival in Philadelphia.