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Description:David Greig is one of Scotland's most important contemporary dramatists. Yet his extensive achievements and the popularity of much of his work notwithstanding, Greig has yet to receive his due in terms of critical consideration. Transnational Identities in David Greig's Theatre is framed by a critical introduction surveying the playwright's drama and its significance within the context of contemporary theatre.The volume offers the first sustained and multifocal analysis of his work with a collection of twelve original scholarly essays and a specially commissioned interview with the author, focused upon a major and recurring theme in his plays, and one that is of keen theoretical importance in cultural studies today - the ways in which globalisation and postmodernity have transformed contemporary identity politics and the possibility of an engaged theatre. As Dan Rebellato has observed in the introduction to Plays 1, a prominent feature of Greig's work is the impact of globalisation upon notions of identity, belonging and citizenship. Whereas Victoria, The Architect and Outlying Islands are located in Scotland, the greater part of Greig's dramatic works explores the significance of place and non-places from various perspectives. Temporally too, Greig's work roams across significant periods or events in (notably European) history, be it the emergence of Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century Europe (The Speculator), the World Wars (Outlying Islands), the Holocaust (Dr Korczak's Example), the war in former Yugoslavia (Europe) or the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq (The American Pilot). The representations of the modern world that emerge in Greig's work, suggest a transnational space, a contact zone where characters with diverse national, ethnic, class or religious backgrounds negotiate their different positions, perspectives and identities.CONTENTS:Muller, Anja and Clare WallaceIntroduction: Transnational Identities and David GreigFisher, Mark Interview with David Greig Zaroulia, Marilena "What's missing is my place in the world": The Utopian Dramaturgy of David Greig Pattie, David Scotland and Anywhere: The Theatre of David GreigInchley, Maggie David Greig and the Return of the Native VoiceMuller, Anja Cosmopolitan Stage Conversations: David Greig's Adapted Transnational Characters and the Ethics of IdentityThompson, Charlotte Beyond Borders: David Greig's Transpersonal DramaturgyRaab, Michael "No turnips on stage, please": David Greig in the German-speaking TheatreFowler, Dawn David Greig's Conflict SpacesWilkie, Fiona "What's there to be scared of in a train?": Transport and Travel in Greig's Europe Billingham, Peter "The bombing continues. The gunfire continues. The End." Themes of American Military-Cultural Globalisation in David Greig's The American Pilot einen, Sandra The Staging of Intercultural Encounter in David Greig's Damascus Wallace, ClareUnfinished Business: Allegories of Otherness in David Greig's DunsinaneWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig's Theatre. To get started finding Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig's Theatre, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 232

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Litteraria Pragensia

Release: 2011

ISBN: 8073083558

Description: David Greig is one of Scotland's most important contemporary dramatists. Yet his extensive achievements and the popularity of much of his work notwithstanding, Greig has yet to receive his due in terms of critical consideration. Transnational Identities in David Greig's Theatre is framed by a critical introduction surveying the playwright's drama and its significance within the context of contemporary theatre.The volume offers the first sustained and multifocal analysis of his work with a collection of twelve original scholarly essays and a specially commissioned interview with the author, focused upon a major and recurring theme in his plays, and one that is of keen theoretical importance in cultural studies today - the ways in which globalisation and postmodernity have transformed contemporary identity politics and the possibility of an engaged theatre. As Dan Rebellato has observed in the introduction to Plays 1, a prominent feature of Greig's work is the impact of globalisation upon notions of identity, belonging and citizenship. Whereas Victoria, The Architect and Outlying Islands are located in Scotland, the greater part of Greig's dramatic works explores the significance of place and non-places from various perspectives. Temporally too, Greig's work roams across significant periods or events in (notably European) history, be it the emergence of Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century Europe (The Speculator), the World Wars (Outlying Islands), the Holocaust (Dr Korczak's Example), the war in former Yugoslavia (Europe) or the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq (The American Pilot). The representations of the modern world that emerge in Greig's work, suggest a transnational space, a contact zone where characters with diverse national, ethnic, class or religious backgrounds negotiate their different positions, perspectives and identities.CONTENTS:Muller, Anja and Clare WallaceIntroduction: Transnational Identities and David GreigFisher, Mark Interview with David Greig Zaroulia, Marilena "What's missing is my place in the world": The Utopian Dramaturgy of David Greig Pattie, David Scotland and Anywhere: The Theatre of David GreigInchley, Maggie David Greig and the Return of the Native VoiceMuller, Anja Cosmopolitan Stage Conversations: David Greig's Adapted Transnational Characters and the Ethics of IdentityThompson, Charlotte Beyond Borders: David Greig's Transpersonal DramaturgyRaab, Michael "No turnips on stage, please": David Greig in the German-speaking TheatreFowler, Dawn David Greig's Conflict SpacesWilkie, Fiona "What's there to be scared of in a train?": Transport and Travel in Greig's Europe Billingham, Peter "The bombing continues. The gunfire continues. The End." Themes of American Military-Cultural Globalisation in David Greig's The American Pilot einen, Sandra The Staging of Intercultural Encounter in David Greig's Damascus Wallace, ClareUnfinished Business: Allegories of Otherness in David Greig's DunsinaneWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig's Theatre. To get started finding Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig's Theatre, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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