Staging Hong Kong: Gender and Performance in Transition - Couverture rigide

Lilley, Rozanna

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0824821637 ISBN 13 : 9780824821630

Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 1999

Synopsis

This beautifully written and well-informed book presents a comprehensive study of Zuni Icosahedron, a Hong Kong avant-garde theatre and dance company, and calls into question the relationship between culture and politics during the last years of British colonial rule. Through both fieldwork and textual analysis, the author explores the double-bind tensions between Chinese and Western aesthetic forms, while examining identity and gender within representation as part of the dramatization of an increasingly uncertain present. Incorporating insights from cultural studies, feminism, anthropology, and queer theory, this imaginative unpacks current debates over Hong Kong identity through the kaleidoscope of avant-garde theatre performances.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Examines contemporary cultural production in Hong Kong and its links to representations of 'Hong Kong identity', and the political forces shaping discourses of identity and the ways in which identity is constituted within representation to dramatise an increasingly uncertain present.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Hawai'i Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0824821637
• ISBN 13: 9780824821630
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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