AuthorDiamond, Catherine
TitleCommunities of imagination : Contemporary Southeast Asian theatres / Catherine Diamond
Imprint Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2012
Descript ix, 392 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Part I. The growing impact of women -- Mae Naak and Phra Ram: Keeping company on the contemporary Thai stage -- Staging the doi moi generation and the treasures of Vietnamese tradition -- Looking within: The Balinese rwa bhineda and readjusting complementary opposites -- Part II. Censorship and global economics -- Cambodia's artistic renaissance or a new culture of dependency? -- Singapore's cosmopolitan identity and its theatrical sideshow -- Dancing with the censors: Burmese performing arts keep time -- Part III. Toward a national culture -- The Philippine theatre's quest for a hero(ine) -- From Fa Ngoum to hip-hop boom: The faces of Lao performance -- Durians, diversity, and fifty years of independence: Malaysian theatre stages its multiethnic heritage -- Conclusion


SUBJECT

  1. Theater -- Southeast Asia
  2. theatre
  3. women
  4. culture

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Thailand and ASEAN Information Center (6th Floor)[TAIC] 85696 CHECK SHELVES
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