Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture

Book Overview

1. Introduction; Daniel McNeil, Yana Meerzon, and David Dean.- 2. Precarious Bodies in Performance Activism and Theatres of Migration; Yana Meerzon.- 3. Spectacular Bodies, Unsettling Objects: Material Performance as Intervention in Stereotypes of Refugees; Laura Purcell Gates.- 4. Theatrical Border Crossings: Stereotypes against Realism in the Plays of Young Jean Lee; Kee-Yoon Nahm.- 5. The Suitcase as a Neurotic Container in the Israeli Theatre: The Return of the Wandering Jew; Sarit Cofman-Simhon.- 6. Keeping the Candle Aflame: Andrey Tarkovsky's Search for Spirituality in a Foreign Land; J. Douglas Clayton.- 7. Read Her Lips: The Ban against Wearing the Niqab and Burqa at the Canadian Citizenship Ceremony 2011-2015; Zaheeda Alibhai.- 8. Tasting the nation: Food, Identity, and Belonging in Canada; Helin Burkay and David Dean.- 9. Mobility and Cultural Citizenship: The Making of a Senegalese Diaspora in Multiethnic Brazil; Gana Ndiaye.- 10. Performance Patterns and Athletic Migration during the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games; Peter Kuling.- 11. Forced Migration, Memory, and Testimony; Nimo Bokore.- 12. Claiming Their Voice: Foreign Memories on the Post-Brexit British; Kasia Lech.- 13. Challenging Stereotypes: Moving Dreams and the Italian Community of Peterborough, U.K.; Ida Cassilli.- 14. Breaking Stereotypes: Afrika! and In the Waiting room of the Dreams: Two Theatrical Projects with Refugees in German Border Cities Close to France; Georgiou Michalis.- 15. Mapping Memory Routes - a Multisensory Digital Approach to Art, Migration and Critical Heritage Studies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030399141
• ISBN13: 9783030399146
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"