| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
re-casting race, ethnicity,and nationality in American theater |
| Author: |
PaoAngela Chia-yi, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Ann Arbor |
| Published: |
University of Michigan Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 305 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Theater : theory/text/performance |
| Subject: |
Theater and society - United States - |
| Subject: |
Ethnicity in the theater - |
| Subject: |
Race in the theater - |
| Subject: |
Theater - Casting - United States - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780472027972/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-282) and index |
| ISBN: |
9780472027972electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0472027972electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780472071210hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0472071211hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780472051212pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0472051210pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction -- Bearing the weight of reality : the theatricality ofcross-racial corporeal encounters -- Re-casting race : nontraditional casting and racial formation -- Bodies like gardens : classical tragedyand comedy in color -- Beyond type : re-casting modern drama and national identity -- The theater, not the city : genre and politics in antirealistic drama -- Chasing rainbows : re-casting race and ethnicity in the Broadway musical -- Afterword |