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This collection of essays explores some of the avenues along which the field of comparative drama studies could be reconfigured at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It offers a comparative analysis of theatre across national and linguistic boundaries while simultaneously acknowledging newer trends in ethnic studies. Indeed, the contributors to this critical anthology productively combine traditional comparative literature methodologies with performance approaches and postcolonial perspectives. In this way, they shed new light on the intertextual, multi-ethnic, and cross-cultural dialogues linking theatrical traditions from Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific region. This book's broad scope bears testimony to the fact that transnational studies can fruitfully illuminate the multiple dramatic voices of our increasingly globalized age.

Theatres in the Round: Multi-ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama

Contents: Dorothy Figueira/Marc Maufort: Theatres in the Round: New Perspectives on Comparative Drama - Steven P. Sondrup: Thoughts on the Origin of Nordic Drama - Geoffrey V. Davis: «Uncomfortable Truths about Contemporary Britain»: Black and South Asian Theatre in the U.K. - Caroline De Wagter: Land and Cultural Memory: Djanet Sears's The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God and Diane Glancy's Jump Kiss: An Indian Legend - Harry J. Elam, Jr./Michele Elam: The High Stakes of Mixed Race: Post-Race, Post-Apartheid Performance in the U.S. and South Africa - Marc Maufort: Celebrating Indigeneity: Contemporary Aboriginal Playwriting in Canada and Australasia - David O'Donnell: Quoting the «Other»: Intertextuality and Indigeneity in Pacific Theatre - Rossella Ferrari: Beckett's Chinese Progeny: Absurdity, Waiting, and the Godot Motif in Contemporary China - Kathleen L. Komar: A Punk-Rock Elektra: Ruth Margraff's The Elektra Fugues - Ross Shideler: Per Olov Enquist's and Racine's Phaedra - Dorothy Figueira: Theories of Myth and Myths of Theory in Thomas Mann and Girish Karnad - John Burt Foster: Soyinka (Euripides-Nietzsche) Thomas Mann: Intertextual Dialogues across the Twentieth Century.