Performance, Exile and ‘America’

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Framing ‘America’ — Between Exilic Imaginary and Exilic Collective ....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The Land of Air-Conditioning and Opportunity: America on the Irish Stage....Pages 23-46
Ninety Miles Away: Exile and Identity in Recent Cuban-American Theatre....Pages 47-65
“An American Mile in Others’ Shoes”: The Tragicomedy of Immigrating to the Twenty-First-Century United States....Pages 66-92
The American Landscape Reconsidered: On the Theatricality of Urban America in Russian Émigré Writings, with Special Focus on the Works of Vasily Aksyonov....Pages 93-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Theatres in America: Brecht and Kafka....Pages 119-133
America Relocated: Karel Čapek’s Robots between Prague, Berlin, and New York....Pages 134-157
At Home in Exile: Finding America in Casablanca and Camino Real....Pages 158-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Deterritorializing Voices: Staging the Middle East in American Theatre....Pages 179-207
Current Trends in Arab-American Performance....Pages 208-219
“We know you’re not Somalia”: Radical Performance and Canadian-American Exile in Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil....Pages 220-243
Exiles and the City: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s New York Interventions of Making the Familiar Strange....Pages 244-263
Back Matter....Pages 264-266