Staging the Slums Slumming the Stage

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Staging the Slums  Slumming the Stage
Author : J. Westgate
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Publisher : Springer
Language : English
Release Date : 15 October 2014
ISBN : 9781137357687
Pages : 278 pages
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Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.

Staging the Slums  Slumming the Stage

Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.

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Staging the Slums  Slumming the Stage

Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.

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