Theorizing the angura space : avant-garde performance and politics in Japan, 1960-2000

Theorizing the angura space : avant-garde performance and politics in Japan, 1960-2000 / by Peter Eckersall.

This is the first history of Japan's avant-garde underground theatre (angura) in a time of its most intense, creative, and original productions, viz. 1960-2000. It closely investigates the interrelationship of aesthetics and politics and explores contrasting examples of contemporary performance...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eckersall, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Series:Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 23.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Experimental theater > Japan.
Theater > Japan > History > 20th century.
Theater > Political aspects > Japan.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
Experimental theater
Theater
Theater > Political aspects
Japan
History
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The 1960s space : performance and protest
  • pt. 2. Culture after the bubble : performance and performativity
  • pt. 3. Rethinking radical spaces in the Japanese avant-garde theatre.

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