Staging Displacement, Exile and Diaspora

Christoph Houswitschka, Anja Müller (Eds.)

Staging Displacement, Exile and Diaspora

ISBN 978-3-88476-751-1, ISBN 3-88476-751-8, 256 S., kt., € 24,00 (2005)

(CDE - Contemporary Drama in English, Bd. 12)

Christiane Schlote / Kathleen Starck
From Displacement to Arrival: Reflections on Exile and Diaspora in the Theatre

Jorge Huerta
Dealing With Displacement: Comedy in Chicano Theatre

Ricarda Klüssendorf
Negotiating Difference, Identity, and Community: Tony Kushner's Jews in "the land behind the Statue of Liberty"

Henning Schäfer
Counteracting Displacement: Native Theatre as a Tool for Healing the Wounds of the Residential School System

Markus Wessendorf
Contemporary Drama in Hawai'i: Representations of Displacement and Diaspora in Edward Sakomoto's Obake and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl's Ola Na Iwi

Franz Meier
"Stop being Indian!" Identity, Hybridity and the Dis/Misplacement of (Post-)Colonial 'Images' in Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink

Deirdre Osborne
The State of the Nation: Contemporary Black British Theatre and the Staging of the UK

Anja Müller
"We are also Europe:" Staging Displacement in David Greig's Plays

Guy Stern
Unfinished Stories

Rudolf Weiss
"Me Johnny Weismuller, you Thomas Mann:" German Writers Exiled in Dreamland: Christopher Hampton's Tales from Hollywood

Ulrike Behlau
Remembering the Holocaust in British-Jewish Drama of the 1990s: Diane Samuels, Julia Pascal and Harold Pinter

Annette Kern-Stähler
The Presentness of the Past: The Prosecution and Staging of Displaced War Criminals in Britain

Jan Hollm
CDE Workshop 2004: Pity and Fear for the Average Student? How to Teach Plays of Displacement, Exile, and Diaspora