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.

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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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Book Title: Performing Exile, Performing Self
Book Subtitle: Drama, Theatre, Film
Authors: Yana Meerzon
Series Title: Studies in International Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371910
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22153-6Published: 05 April 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30703-6Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37191-0Published: 05 April 2012
Series ISSN: 2947-4949
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4957
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 350
Topics: Music, Performing Arts, Geography, general, Theatre and Performance Studies, Theatre History, Sociology, general

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