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Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland: Towards a New Interculturalism
Charlotte McIvor
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Hardback. Series: Contemporary Performance Interactions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFC; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
This book investigates Ireland's translation of interculturalism as social policy into aesthetic practice and situates the wider implications of this `new interculturalism' for theatre and performance studies at large. Offering the first full-length, post-1990s study of the effect of large-scale immigration and interculturalism as social policy on Irish theatre and performance, McIvor argues that inward-migration changes most of what can be assumed about Irish theatre and performance and its relationship to national identity. By using case studies that include theatre, dance, photography, and activist actions, this book works through major debates over aesthetic interculturalism in theatre and ... Read more
This book investigates Ireland's translation of interculturalism as social policy into aesthetic practice and situates the wider implications of this `new interculturalism' for theatre and performance studies at large. Offering the first full-length, post-1990s study of the effect of large-scale immigration and interculturalism as social policy on Irish theatre and performance, McIvor argues that inward-migration changes most of what can be assumed about Irish theatre and performance and its relationship to national identity. By using case studies that include theatre, dance, photography, and activist actions, this book works through major debates over aesthetic interculturalism in theatre and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Contemporary Performance Interactions
Condition
New
Weight
508g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137469724
SKU
V9781137469724
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99-15
About Charlotte McIvor
Charlotte McIvor is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway in the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. She is the co-editor of Staging Intercultural Ireland: Plays and Practitioner Perspectives (with Matthew Spangler) and Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice (with Siobhan O'Gorman). She has published in Modern ... Read more
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