Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 262 pages)
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Also published in print
ISBN:
9781472591630
Content:
"Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays. Since relocating to France in 1987, in a voluntary exile from China, he has assembled a body of dramatic work that has best been understood neither as expressly Chinese nor French, but as transnational. In this comprehensive study of his post-exile plays, Mary Mazzilli explores Gao's plays as examples of postdramatic transnationalism: a transnational artistic and theatrical trend that is fluid, flexible and encompasses a variety of styles and influences. As such, this innovative interdisciplinary investigation offers fresh insights into contemporary theatre. Whereas other publications have considered Gao's work as a cultural and artistic phenomenon, Gao Xingjian's Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre is the first study to relate his plays to postdramatic theatre and to provide close textual and dramatic analysis that will help readers to better understand his complex work, and also to see it in the context of the work of contemporary playwrights such as Martin Crimp, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek. Among the plays discussed are: The Other Shore , written just before he left China in 1987; Between Life and Death (1991) - compared in detail to Martin Crimp's Attempts on her life ; Dialogue and Rebuttal (1992), and its relationship to Beckett's Happy Days ; Nocturnal Wanderer (1993), Weekend Quartet (1995), and the latest plays Snow in August (1997), Death Collector (2000) and Ballade Nocturne (2010)."--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index
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Gao Xingjian and postdramatic theatre : The Other Shore between Lehmann and Fuchs -- Gao and postdramatic theatre : a comparison with British playwright Martin Crimp -- Dialogue and rebuttal : the death of love in postdramatic transnationalism -- Individualism and freedom in Nocturnal Wanderer -- Transnational postdramatic realism in Weekend Quartet -- Latest postdramatic attempts at transansnationalism.
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ISBN 9781472591609
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472591630
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