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    Asian Canadian theatre / edited by Nina Lee Aquino and Ric Knowles.

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    • Title:Asian Canadian theatre / edited by Nina Lee Aquino and Ric Knowles.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Aquino, Nina Lee.
      Knowles, Richard Paul, 1950-
    • Published/Created:Toronto : Playwrights Canada Press, 2011.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Asians--Canada--Drama.
      Canadian drama--20th century.
      Canadian drama--21st century.
      Canadian drama--Asian Canadian authors--History and criticism.
      Canadian drama--20th century--History and criticism.
      Canadian drama--21st century--History and criticism.
    • Description:xvi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
    • Series:New essays on Canadian theatre ; 1.
    • Summary:"A collection of essays emerging from the international GENesis conference held by fu-GEN Theatre Company, this is the first book to consider the formation, history, and practice of Asian Canadian theatre. As the foundational volume in the development of a new field of study, it includes essays by major voices in Asian Canadian Studies and Asian North American Theatre Studies, as well as some of Canada's top theatre practitioners." -- Publisher's website.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [236]-254) and index.
    • ISBN:9780887549861
      0887549861
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: Enunciating Asian Canadian Drama / Karen Shimakawa
      Performing Asian Canadian: The Theatrical Dimension of a Grassroots Activism / Xiaoping Li
      Is There an Asian Canadian Theatre in Vancouver? / Adrienne Wong
      Homeland Under Attack: Looking for a New Theatrical Paradigm in Asian Americas / Daphne Lei
      Performing Traditions and Diasporic Efforts: The Kunqu Society and Little Pear Garden Collective / Dongshin Chang
      On Being an Elder Statesperson / Brenda Kamino
      "Patient Zero": Jean Yoon and Korean Canadian Theatre / Esther Kim Lee
      Reflections on the "Roots" Panel and "The Generational Divide" / Jean Yoon
      Le Rugissement du Lion: Mapping and Memory in Montreal's Chinese/Canadian Street Theatre / Sean Metzger
      Hybridity / Donald Woo
      Asian Canadian Performance and the Politics of Misrecognition / Christopher Lee
      Sketching Subversion: Improv and the Representation of Race in Asian Canadian Comic Performances / Thy Phu
      Toronto: Don't Be an Asshole / David Yee
      CBT Collective: Toward a Filipino Canadian Dramaturgy / Ric Knowles
      Nightwood Theatre, Asian Canadian Women, and China Doll: The Ties That Bind / Shelley Scott
      Asian Canadian Footprints in Edmonton's Concrete Theatre / Anne Nothof
      Regional Artists/Racialized Spaces / June Park
      Manipulating Theatrical Space to Create Physical Place: Betty Quan's Mother Tongue Reclaiming Space for the Individual / Jenna Rodgers
      Performing Asian Canadian Intimacy: Theatre Replacement's Bioboxes and Awkward Multiculturalisms / Christine Kim
      Jade in the Coal and the Performance of Theatrical Interculturalism / Siyuan Liu
      Acting Asian / Jane Luk
      Affect, Family, and the Past in Two Plays by Catherine Hernandez / Eleanor Ty
      Kai-dai: Staging Queer Subjectivity in Winston Christopher Kam's Bachelor-Man / Donald Goellnicht.
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