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Gao Xingjian and Transcultural Chinese Theater
Author | : Sy Ren Quah |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-04-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0824826299 |
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A reclusive painter living in exile in Paris, Gao Xingjian found himself instantly famous when he became the first Chinese language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (2000). The author of the novel Soul Mountain, Gao is best known in his native country not as a visual artist or novelist, but as a playwright and theater director. This important yet rarely studied figure is the focus of Sy Ren Quah’s rich account appraising his contributions to contemporary Chinese and World Theater over the past two decades. A playwright himself, Quah provides an in-depth analysis of the literary, dramatic, intellectual, and technical aspects of Gao’s plays and theatrical concepts, treating Gao’s theater not only as an art form but, with Gao himself, as a significant cultural phenomenon. The Bus Stop, Wild Man, and other early works are examined in the context of 1980s China. Influenced by Stanislavsky, Brecht, and Beckett, as well as traditional Chinese theater arts and philosophies, Gao refused to conform to the dominant realist conventions of the time and made a conscious effort to renovate Chinese theater. The young playwright sought to create a "Modern Eastern Theater" that was neither a vague generalization nor a nationalistic declaration, but a challenge to orthodox ideologies. After fleeing China, Gao was free to experiment openly with theatrical forms. Quah examines his post-exile plays in a context of performance theory and philosophical concerns, such as the real versus the unreal, and the Self versus the Other. The image conveyed of Gao is not of an activist but of an intellectual committed to maintaining his artistic independence who continues to voice his opinion on political matters.
Transcultural Aesthetics in the Plays of Gao Xingjian
Author | : T. Coulter |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2014-05-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781137440747 |
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Gao Xingjian has been lauded for his inventive use of Chinese culture in his paintings, plays, and cinema, however he denies that his current work participates in any notion of Chinese. This book traces the development of these forms and how the relate and interact in the French language plays of the Nobel Laureate.
Transcultural Aesthetics in the Plays of Gao Xingjian
Author | : T. Coulter |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2014-05-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781137440747 |
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Gao Xingjian has been lauded for his inventive use of Chinese culture in his paintings, plays, and cinema, however he denies that his current work participates in any notion of Chinese. This book traces the development of these forms and how the relate and interact in the French language plays of the Nobel Laureate.
Performing Identity in the Plays of Gao Xingjian
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Author | : Todd J. Coulter |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2013-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0773444912 |
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Offers a fresh look at a theater scholar and Nobel Peace Prize laureate viewed from a cultural studies lens. This exploration of transcultural theater is useful to both the general and initiated reader. It embraces the social and aesthetic influences of traditional Chinese theater and the intellectual, cultural influences of French theater.
Gao Xingjian s Idea of Theatre
Author | : Izabella Łabędzka |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2008-08-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9789047433743 |
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This book argues that Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre can only be explained by his broad knowledge and use of various Chinese and Western theatrical, literary, artistic and philosophical traditions.
Gao Xingjian s Post Exile Plays
Author | : Mary Mazzilli |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781472591616 |
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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).
Drama Box 30 Keywords
Author | : Quah Sy Ren |
Publsiher | : Drama Box Ltd and Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd |
Total Pages | : 697 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9789811819186 |
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A comprehensive, multi-layered examination and discussion of Drama Box’s 30-year history, based on 30 key words. These allow you to connect and refer to the characteristics and social thought of the times on a broader level. The book offers exclusive insight into Drama Box as an independent theatre company, and incisive appreciation of Singapore’s theatre and social landscape.
Polyphony Embodied Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian s Writings
Author | : Michael Lackner,Nikola Chardonnens |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-06-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783110351873 |
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Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western Modernity. The present volume is less interested in a general discussion on the multitude of aspects in Gao's works and even less in controversies concerning their aesthetic value than in obtaining a response to the crucial issues of freedom and fate from a clearly defined angle. The very nature of the answer to the question of freedom and fate within Gao Xingjian's works can be called a polyphonic one: there are affirmative as well as skeptical voices. But polyphony, as embodied by Gao, is an even more multifaceted phenomenon. Most important for our contention is the fact that Gao Xingjian's aesthetic experience embodies prose, theater, painting, and film. Taken together, they form a Gesamtkunstwerk whose diversity of voices characterizes every single one of them.