Table of Contents

Keywords List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Daphne P. Lei (University of California, USA), ‘Chapter One: Introduction’ Section I: HIT (Hegemonic Intercultural Theatre)’s Counter-Currents Marcus Cheng Chye Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), ‘Chapter Two: (Re)Sounding Universals: The Politics of Listening to Peter Brook’s Battlefield’ Emily Sahakian (University of Georgia, USA), ‘Chapter Three: The Intercultural Politics of Performing Revolution: Maryse Condé’s Inter-theatre with Ariane Mnouchkine’ Arnab Banerji (Muhlenberg College, USA) ‘Chapter Four: What lies beyond Hattamala?: Badal Sircar and his Third Theatre as an Alternative Trajectory for Intercultural Theatre’ Section II: Networking New Interculturalisms Bi-qi Beatrice Lei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), ‘Chapter Five: Decentering Asian Shakespeare: Approaching Intercultural Theatre as a Living Organism’ Diana Looser (Stanford University, USA), ‘Chapter Six: Connecting the Dots: Performances, Island Worlds, and Oceanic Interculturalisms’ Roaa Ali (University of Manchester, UK) ‘Chapter Seven: Subversive Immigrant Narratives in the In/visible Margin: Performing Interculturalism on Online Stages’ Section III: Interculturalism as Practice Jennifer Goodlander (Indiana University, USA), ‘Chapter Eight: Beyond HIT: Towards Regional Interculturalism through Puppetry in Southeast Asia’ SanSan Kwan (University of California, Berkeley, USA), ‘Chapter Nine: Acts of Loving: Emmanuelle Huynh, Akira Kasai, and Eiko Otake’ Angeline Young (Arizona State University, USA), ‘Chapter Ten: reORIENTing interculturalism in the academy: An Asianist Approach to teaching Afro-Haitian dance’ Section IV: Testing the Limits of New Interculturalism Ketu H. Katrak (University of California, USA), ‘Chapter Eleven: Mamela Nyamza and Dada Masilo: South African Black Women Dancer-Choreographers Dancing ‘New Interculturalism’’ Min Tian (University of Illinois, USA), ‘Chapter Twelve: The ‘Dis/De-’ in the Hyphen: The Matrix and Dynamics of Displacement in Intercultural Performance’ Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (Skidmore College, USA), ‘Chapter Thirteen: Interculturalidad: (How) Can Performance Analysis Decolonize?’ Section V: Interculturalism(s): Mapping the Past, Reflecting on the Future Charlotte McIvor National (University of Ireland, Ireland) with Justine Nakase (National University of Ireland, Ireland), ‘Chapter Fourteen: Annotated Bibliography’ Charlotte McIvor (National University of Ireland, Ireland), ‘Chapter Fifteen: Conclusion’ Bibliography Index

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This book introduces new directions in critical discourse while surveying key debates in the field of theatre and performance studies concerning interculturalism as an aesthetic and ethical series of encounters from the 1960s onwards.

About the Author

Daphne P. Lei is Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. She is internationally known for her work on Chinese opera, Asian American theatre, intercultural theatre, and diasporic and transnational performance. She is the author of many scholarly articles, both in English and Chinese. She has published two books: Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity across the Pacific (2006) and Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero (2011), and her articles can be seen in many scholarly journals. She is the president of American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR, 2015-2018). Charlotte McIvor is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway, Ireland. She is the author of Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland: Towards A New Interculturalism (2016), and the co-editor of Staging Intercultural Ireland: Plays and Practitioner Perspectives (with Matthew Spangler, 2014) and Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice (with Siobhán O’Gorman, 2015).