This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre.
Through four sections discussing Occupation and Resistance, Migration and Refugees, Religion and Secularism, and Nationalism and Belonging, this study provides nuanced responses to the contested points of intersection between Arab culture and the West, as well as many of the major concerns within contemporary Arab theatre. The collection draws together scholars from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and the United States who write about Arab theatre and the representation of Arabs on European and American stages. It introduces concerns in contemporary Arab theatre, the regions in which Arab theatre is performed, and the issues with representations of Arabs onstage.
This volume will be of great significance for those interested in expanding the range of global, postcolonial, African, Asian, or diasporic theatre that they study, teach, or stage.
This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre.
Part 1 Identity and Resistance
1. Historiographical Conundrums in
Palestinian Theatre Research
2. The Iraqi Home/Land under Siege: House as
Metaphor in Abdul Razaq Al-Rubais A Strange Bird on Our Roof
3. Palestinian
Theatre: Alienation, Mediation, and Assimilation in Cross-Cultural Research
and Practice
4. Across Borders and Thresholds: Shakespeare Othello and
Hamlet in the Arab World
5. The Maghreb on the American Stage: The "Barbary
Wars" in Post-Independence US Theatre
6. Censorship and Creativity in Syrian
Theatre: Sadallah Wannous A Soirée for the Fifth of June, The Kings
Elephant, and The King Is King Part 2 Diaspora, Migration, and Refugees
7.
Strategies of Resistance: Arab American Dramatic Devices in the Battle
Against Anti-Arab Stereotypes
8. Postmemory Nostalgia in Service of
Nationalism
9. Can Everyone Hear Me?: Arab Digital Performance and Border
Crossing on UK Stages
10. Arab Voices on the European Stage: Between Fact and
Fiction, Memory and Imagination
11. Arab Muslim Stand-up and North American
Religious Identities
12. The Predicaments of Production: Public Discourse,
Artistic Process, and Audience Response in Contemporary Arab American Theatre
Part 3 Nationalism and Belonging
13. Stable Instability: Performing National
Identity in Amman
14. Globalisation LIVE! Arab Performance as Corporate
Goodwill?
15. Sharjah Desert as a Site-Specific Theatrical Venue
16. The
Manifest Absence of Religion in Modern Egyptian Drama: The Case of Alfred
Fara
17. Arabs/Muslims on American Stages: Foils for American Adventurism
18. From the Karagoz to Ragi: Nasser as the Patron of an Indigenous Egyptian
Political Theatre
Roaa Ali is Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester, UK.
George Potter is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Walter G. Friedrich Professor of American Literature at Valparaiso University, Indiana, USA.
Samer Al-Saber is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford University, USA. He is a member of the faculty at the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.
