Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture
Editors: Meerzon, Yana, Dean, David, McNeil, Daniel (Eds.)
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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the “migration crisis”, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been linked to the intensification and proliferation of stereotypes about migrants since 2015. Topics include the representations of migration and stereotypes in citizenship ceremonies and culinary traditions, law and literature, and public history and performance. Bringing together academics in the arts, humanities and social sciences, as well as artists and theatre practitioners, the collection equips readers with new methodologies, keywords and collaborative research tools to support critical inquiry and public-facing research in fields such as Theatre and Performance Studies, Cultural and Migration Studies, and Applied Theatre and History.
- About the authors
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Yana Meerzon, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Canada, has published on theatre of exile and migration, and cultural and interdisciplinary studies. Her books include A Path of the Character: Michael Chekhov's Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics (2005) and Performing Exile – Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film (2012).
David Dean is Professor of History at Carleton University, Canada, and co-director of the Carleton Centre for Public History working especially on performances of the past in contemporary society. Co-editor of the journal International Public History, his most recent book is A Companion to Public History (2018)
Daniel McNeil is the inaugural Public Humanities Fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada, and an Associate Professor of History at Carleton University. A former holder of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Visiting Professorship of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaul University, his books include Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic (2010).
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-17
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Precarious Bodies in Performance Activism and Theatres of Migration
Pages 21-38
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Spectacular Bodies, Unsettling Objects: Material Performance as Intervention in Stereotypes of Refugees
Pages 39-55
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Theatrical Border Crossings: Stereotypes against Realism in the Plays of Young Jean Lee
Pages 57-75
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The Suitcase as a Neurotic Container in the Israeli Theatre: The Return of the Wandering Jew
Pages 77-99
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture
- Editors
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- Yana Meerzon
- David Dean
- Daniel McNeil
- Series Title
- Contemporary Performance InterActions
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-39915-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-39915-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-39914-6
- Series ISSN
- 2634-5870
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 298
- Number of Illustrations
- 9 b/w illustrations
- Topics