1st Edition
Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work Foreign Bodies of Knowledge
Acknowledgments. 1. The Cultural Temperature of the Twentieth Century. 2. Race, Culture, and the Myth of the Authentic. 3. Tenuous Boundaries: Intra- and Intercultural Embodiments. 4. Peep Show: The Hidden Lives of the Intercultural Actor. 5. Fictive Realities: Character and the Eye of the Beholder. Afterword: A Theatre of Instabilities. Appendix A: Forgotten Memories in Action: An Interview with Ang Gey Pin. Appendix B: Playing the Invisible: An Interview with Roberta Carreri. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Actor, director, and scholar Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento, PhD, performs and conducts research internationally. Tatinge Nascimento is an Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at Wesleyan University, and her articles have appeared in Biblioteca Teatrale (Italy), Didaskalia (Poland), and Theatre Research International, among others.
'Although dealing with a very complex topic, Claudia Tatinge Nascimento manages to make her point clear. Based on theoretical and practical data as well as on personal experience, the author presents a very coherent and readable book which may be of great interest both for experts and laypersons, for theatre scholars and scholars of cultural studies, literature and others.' - www.theaterforschung.de
