Staging Cultural Encounters
Algerian Actors Tour the United States
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2020
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04961-2 (ISBN)
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
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Jane E. Goodman follows Algerian theater troupe Istijmam as they prepare for and then tour the U.S.Questioning notions such as directionality, Goodman offer a frank account of the encounters with American audiences and the successes and disappointments of the experience of exchange.
Staging Cultural Encounters tells stories about performances of cultural encounter and cultural exchange during the US tour of the Algerian theater troupe Istijmam Culturelle in 2016. Jane E. Goodman follows the Algerian theater troupe as they prepare for and then tour the U.S. under the auspices of the Center Stage program, sponsored by the US State Department to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding.
The title of the play Istijmam produced was translated as "Apples," written by Abdelkader Alloula, a renowned Algerian playwright, director, and actor who was assassinated in 1994. Goodman take readers on tour with the actors as they move from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to the large state universities of New Hampshire and Indiana, and from a tiny community theater in small-town New England to the stage of the avant-garde La MaMa Theater in New York City.
Staging Cultural Encounters takes up conundrums of cross-cultural encounter, challenges in translation, and audience reception, offering a frank account of the encounters with American audiences and the successes and disappointments of the experience of exchange.
Staging Cultural Encounters tells stories about performances of cultural encounter and cultural exchange during the US tour of the Algerian theater troupe Istijmam Culturelle in 2016. Jane E. Goodman follows the Algerian theater troupe as they prepare for and then tour the U.S. under the auspices of the Center Stage program, sponsored by the US State Department to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding.
The title of the play Istijmam produced was translated as "Apples," written by Abdelkader Alloula, a renowned Algerian playwright, director, and actor who was assassinated in 1994. Goodman take readers on tour with the actors as they move from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to the large state universities of New Hampshire and Indiana, and from a tiny community theater in small-town New England to the stage of the avant-garde La MaMa Theater in New York City.
Staging Cultural Encounters takes up conundrums of cross-cultural encounter, challenges in translation, and audience reception, offering a frank account of the encounters with American audiences and the successes and disappointments of the experience of exchange.
Jane E. Goodman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. She is author of Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video.
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. The Customer and the Attendant: Desire, Disappearance, and Disenfranchisement in Neoliberalizing Algeria
2. Restaging the Halqa: From Algerian Market to Global Marketplace
3. On the Road: Cultural Encounters in Cosmopolitan Times
4. Behind the Scenes: The Disciplines of Rehearsal
5. Encounters in Translation: How Et-Teffeh Became Apples
Epilogue. Apples in America
Works Cited
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.01.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa |
Zusatzinfo | 28 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 576 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-253-04961-X / 025304961X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-04961-2 / 9780253049612 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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