This collection investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place particularly focusing on issues of language, space and identity. It looks at ways in which immigrants and outsiders are embodied in American theatre practice and explores ways in which 'America' is staged and dramatized by immigrants and foreigners.
Author Biography:
ALAN ACKERMAN Associate Professor, English Department, University of Toronto, Canada
VERONIKA AMBROS Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto, Canada
DALIA BASIOUNY Artist, academic, translator and newscaster
MARVIN CARLSON Sidney E. Cohn Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA
LISA FITZPATRICK Lecturer in Drama, University of Ulster, UK
ERITH JAFFE-BERG Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, University of California, Riverside, USA
DIANA MANOLE Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto, Canada
YAEL PRIZANT Assistant Professor, Department of Film, Television and Theatre, University of Notre Dame, USA
FREDDIE ROKEM Professor, Department of Theatre Arts, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
JERRY WASSERMAN Professor of English and Theatre and Head of the Department of Theatre and Film, University of British Columbia, Canada