Canadian Performance Histories & Historiograpies: New Essays On Canadian Theatre, Volume Seven

Synopsis

As Canada Celebrates Its 150th Centenary In 2017, Canadian Performance Histories And Historiographies Asks What Currently Defines The Field Of Theatre And Performance History In Canada? Challenging The Idea Of A Singular Narrative Of Canadian Theatre History And Centering On Questions Of Historiography And Methodology, The Essays In This Collection Investigate Performances That Have Been Excluded From Mainstream Theatre Histories And Re-evaluate Well-known Theatre Movements To Explore Cultural Memory. That Is To Say, How Do We Remember Performances Of The Past And Why Do Some Stories Survive While Others Have Been Largely Forgotten? Contributors Draw On Recent Critical Developments In Performance Studies, Historiography, Indigenous Studies, And Hemispheric Studies To Explore Topics Ranging From The Affective Labour Performed In Life-writing By World War I Veterans, To A Reconsideration Of The Role Of Dramaturges In The Alternative Theatre Movement, To A Microhistory Of Petitions Protesting Minstrel Performers Appearing In Toronto, To A Timely Consideration Of Digital Technologies In Performance Art Documentation.-- Double Lives And Disappearing Acts : Canadian Performance Histories / By Heather Davis-fisch -- Beyond Shame And Blame In Pauline Johnson's Performance Histories / By Alexandra Kovacs -- Chiac And The Linguistic Detour Of Acadian Theatre History / By Glen Nichols -- Untold Histories Of Canadian Theatre In Higher Education / By Glen Nichols -- Bc Aboriginal Theatre History In The Making : Talking With Margo Kane About The History Of Full Circle And The Talking Stick / By Michelle La Flamme -- Affect And The Unproduced : 420016 Sgt. Atkinson W.s. And Glory Hole : A Play Of The Great War Of 1914-18 / By Alan Filewod -- Beyond Primary Sources : Using Dance Documentation To Examine Attitudes Toward Diversity In The Massey Commission (1949-1951) / By Allana C. Lindgren -- Un/disciplined Re/collections : Toward An Archaeology Of Nonprofessionalizing Theatre Practices / By Robin C. Whittaker -- Invisibility And Early New Play Dramaturgy : Bill Glassco's Development Of David Freeman's Creeps / By Jessica Riley -- Interventions Into The Maw Of Old World Hunger : Frog Monsters, Kinstellatory Maps, And Radical Relationalities In A Project Of Reworlding / By Jill Carter, Karyn Recollet, And Dylan Robinson -- Theatre In The New World : Troubles In Modernity / By Yves Jubinville -- Shield Us From This Base Ridicule : The Petitions To Censor Blackface Circus Clowns, Toronto, 1840-43 / By Stephen Johnson -- Three Sentences : A Child Actress In Halifax, 1833 / By Marlis Schweitzer -- The Death Of Performance Art! Performing Performance Art Documentation / By T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko. Edited By Heather Davis-fisch. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 325-358) And Index.