1st Edition
Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage Land, People, Culture
By Susanne Thurow
Copyright 2020
208 Pages
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Routledge
206 Pages
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Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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Over the past 50 years, Indigenous Australian theatre practice has emerged as a dynamic site for the discursive reflection of culture and tradition as well as colonial legacies, leveraging the power of storytelling to create and advocate contemporary fluid conceptions of Indigeneity. Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage offers a window into the history and... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1- Cultural and Historical Context; Chapter 2- Contemporary Indigenous Australian Theatre; Chapter 3- Case Study: Scott Rankin’s NAMATJIRA (2010); Chapter 4- Case Study: Wesley Enoch & Anita Heiss’ I AM EORA (2012); Conclusion
Biography
Susanne Julia Thurow is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She obtained her PhD in English Philology from Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany) in 2017. Previously, she worked for Big hART Inc., the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney, Goethe Institut and Thalia Theater (Hamburg, Germany).
