Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore by Lo, Jacqueline

Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789622096875)

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Format: Hardcover
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Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore by Lo, Jacqueline

Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore

$50.00
Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore by Lo, Jacqueline

Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore

$50.00
Format: Hardcover
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Staging Nation examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation building in postcolonial Malaysia and Singapore. In less than fifty years, locally written and produced English language theatre has managed to shrug off its colonial shackles to become an important site of community expression. This groundbreaking comparative study discusses the role of creative writing and the act of performance as actual political acts and as interventions in national self-constructions. It argues that certain forms of theatre can be read as emerging oppositional cultures that contribute towards the deepening of democracy by offering contending narratives of the nation.

Author: Jacqueline Lo
ISBN-10: 9622096875
ISBN-13: 9789622096875
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.32w x 0.76d
By Jacqueline Lo
By Jacqueline Lo
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Jacqueline Lo is Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities, Australian National University. She has published widely on postcolonial theory, performance studies and Asian-Australian cultural politics. She is the editor of Theatre in Southeast Asia, and editor of Diaspora Negotiating Asian-Australia.

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