"Mouths on fire with songs" : : negotiating multi-ethnic identities on the contemporary North American stage / / Caroline De Wagter.

This book, the first cross-cultural study of post-1970s anglophone Canadian and American multi-ethnic drama, invites assessment of the thematic and aesthetic contributions of this theater in today’s globalized culture. A growing number of playwrights of African, South and East Asian, and First Natio...

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Superior document:Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 163
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures ; 163.
Physical Description:1 online resource (420 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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