Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Context

Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Context
ISBN-10
0820474193
ISBN-13
9780820474199
Category
Communication and culture
Pages
214
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Peter Lang
Authors
John T. Warren, Laura B. Lengel

Description

Casting Gender puts forward a vision of theatre, storytelling, and the performance of the everyday function within the lived spaces of its performers and audiences, asking how women artists/scholars embody meaning, carry social value, and constitute possible identities. Drawing on scholarship in intercultural communication, performance studies, women's studies, and cultural studies, this collection of new, critically informed research advances our understanding of how theater works as intercultural communication and as a vehicle for change. Casting Gender offers varied locations and sites of research, highlighting the rich diversity of women's cultural identities, roles, and societal positions. This book moves beyond the western-centered nature of intercultural performance and intercultural communication theory and practice by creating a forum for nonwestern voices.

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