"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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