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Performing Exile, Performing Self

Drama, Theatre, Film

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  • © 2012

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  1. Yana Meerzon
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Part of the book series: Studies in International Performance (STUDINPERF)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: On Theater and Exile: Toward a Definition of Exilic Theater as Performing Odyssey

    • Yana Meerzon
    Pages 1-34

  3. Heteroglossia of a Castaway: On the Exilic Performative of Joseph Brodsky’s Poetry and Prose

    • Yana Meerzon
    Pages 35-72

  4. Beyond the Postcolonial Dasein: On Derek Walcott’s Narratives of History and Exile

    • Yana Meerzon
    Pages 73-125

  5. Performing Exilic Communitas: On Eugenio Barba’s Theater of a Floating Island

    • Yana Meerzon
    Pages 126-170

  6. The Homebody/Kanjiža: On Josef Nadj’s Exilic Theater of Autobiography and Travelogue

    • Yana Meerzon
    Pages 171-212

  7. To the Poetics of Exilic Adolescence: On Wajdi Mouawad’s Theater of Secondary Witness and Poetic Testimony

    • Yana Meerzon
    Pages 213-253

  8. Framing the Ancestry: Performing Postmemory in Atom Egoyan’s Post-Exilic Cinema

    • Yana Meerzon
    Pages 254-292

  9. Conclusion: On the Lessons of Exilic Theater, Performing Exile, Performing Self

    • Yana Meerzon
    Pages 293-302

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 303-350
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About this book

This book examines the life and art of those contemporary artists who by force or by choice find themselves on other shores. It argues that the exilic challenge enables the émigré artist to (re)establish new artistic devices, new laws and a new language of communication in both his everyday life and his artistic work.

About the author

YANA MEERZON Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests are in theater and drama theory. Her book The Path of a Character: Michael Chekhov's Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics was published in 2005. Her latest publication is a collection of articles (co-edited with Silvija Jestrovic) Performance, Exile and 'America', November 2009, Palgrave.

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