East of West Cross-Cultural Performance and the Staging of Differenc
This ambitious collection offers an innovative look at crosscultural theatrical exchanges. Overturning the argument that Western culture has been imposed on subject cultures in favor of the paradigm of exchange, East of West examines the rich intersection
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East of West Cross"C ultural Performance and the Staging of Difference
Edited by Claire Sponsler and Xiaomei Cben
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EAST OF WEST Copyright © Claire Sponsler and Xiaomei Chen, 2000. Softcover reprint of the hardcover I st edition 2000 978-0-312-22815-6
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published 2000 by PALGRAVETM 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVETM is the new global publishing imprint of St. Martin's Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-1-349-62626-7 ISBN 978-1-349-62624-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-62624-3
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data East ofWest : crosscultural performance and the staging of difference / edited by Claire Sponsler and Xiaomei Chen p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Exoticism in literature. 2. Exoticism in motion pictures. 3. East and West. 1. Sponsler, Claire. II. Chen, Xiaomei. PN56.E78 E18 2000 809'.93353-dc21 00-031130 CIP
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Letra Libre, Inc. First edition: September, 2000 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
For Cliff, of course
Contents
Priface
IX
Introduction Claire Sponsler
1
PART I. TEXTUAL BORDER CROSSING: LINGUISTIC, SEMIOTIC, PERFORMATIVE 15
1.
The Macaronic Stage Marvin Carlson
2.
Concrete Poetry and the New Performance Arts: Interserniotic, Intermedia, Intercultural Claus Claver
33
Vulfolaic the Stylite: Orientalism and Performing Holiness in Gregory's Histories Karen A. Winstead
63
3.
PART II. OCCIDENT MEETS ORIENT: NATION, STATE, AND LOCAL TRADITION 4.
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"Strange and Exotic": Representing the Other in Medieval and Renaissance Performance Kathleen M. Ashley On Making Things Korean: Western Drama and Local Tradition in Yi Man-hui's Please Turn Out the Lights Jinhee Kim
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Representing the Chinese Nation-State in Filmic Discourse Sheldon H. Lu
111
The Making of a Revolutionary Stage: Chinese Model Theatre and Its Western Influences Xiaomei Chen
125
PART III. CROSSING OTHER BORDERS: THE POLITICS OF CO-OPTATION 8.
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King Kong in Johannesburg: Popular Theatre and Public Protest in 1950s South Mrica Cynthia Erb
143
Traveling Players: Brazilians in the Rouen Entry of 1550 Claire Sponsler
167
South of North: Carmen and French Nationalisms Robert L. A. Clark
187
Contributors Select Bibliography Index
217 219 226
Preface
T
he essays in this collection are dedicated to the memory of C. Clifford Flanigan, whose untimely death in 1993 deprived us of a much-loved and admired friend, mentor, and colleague. A professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, Cliff centered his work on medieval drama specifically and cultural studies more genera
