Realisms in East Asian Performance

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-472-07642-0
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Existing scholarly discussions of theatrical realism have been predominantly limited to 19th-century European and Russian theater, with little attention paid to wider explorations and alternative definitions of the practice. Examining theater forms and artists from China, Japan, and Korea, Realisms in East Asian Performance brings together a group of theater historians to reconsider realism through the performing arts of East Asia.

The book’s contributors emphasize trans-regional conversations and activate inter-Asian dialogues on theatrical production. Tracing historical trajectories, starting from premodern periods through today, the book seeks to understand realisms’ multiple origins, forms, and cultural significances, and examines their continuities, disruptions, and divergences. In its diversity of topics, geographic locations, and time periods, Realisms in East Asian Performance aims to globalize and de-center the dominant narratives surrounding realism in theater, and revise assumptions about the spectacular and theatrical forms of Asian performance. Understanding realism as a powerful representational style, chapters collectively reevaluate acts of representation on stage not just for East Asia, but for theater and performance studies more broadly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Note on Transliteration and Names
Acknowledgements
Introduction: From Realism to Realisms
Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Saltzman-Li (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Part I: Revealing Realisms
1. Theatrical Realism on the Kabuki Stage: Methods and Theories
Katherine Saltzman-Li (University of California at Santa Barbara)
2. Stylized Reality on the Jingju Stage: Revisiting Picking up a Jade Bracelet as a Case Study
Xing Fan (University of Toronto)
3. Racing the Real: Korean Realism Theater and Racial Representation in Cha Bumseok’s Yeoldaeeo
Soo Ryon Yoon (Lingnan University) and Ji Hyon (Kayla) Yuh (Montclair State University)
Part II: Real Life Onstage
4. The Subversion of Everyday Life: Neoliberal South Korea and the Theater of the Everyday in the Plays of Park Kunhyung
Kee-Yoon Nahm (Illinois State University)
5. From Realist Drama to Theater of the Real: Postsocialist Realism in Contemporary Chinese Theater
Rossella Ferrari (University of Vienna)
6. Three Kingdoms of Pain and Sorrow: Verisimilitude of Warfare Presented in
Pansori Jeokbyeokga
Min-Hyung Yoo (Korea University)
Part III: Technologies
7. Mediated Laugher and the Limits of Realism: Laughing Letter and the Kinodrama Experiment in 1930s Japanese Performance
Aragorn Quinn (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)
8. Realism, the Real, and Mediated Reality: Hirata Oriza and Beyond
M. Cody Poulton (University of Victoria)
9. Realisms in Japan’s Eighteenth-Century Puppet Theater
Jyana S. Browne (University of Maryland)
10. Costumes of the Present: Clothing and Realism in Traditional Chinese Theater
Guojun Wang (Vanderbilt University)
Part IV: Evolving Realisms
11. Colonial Temporality, Diasporic Displacement, and Korean Realism in Yun Baek-nam’s Destiny
Miseong Woo (Yonsei University)
12. The “Deep Realism” of Style: From Michel Saint-Denis to Huang Zuolin
Siyuan Liu (University of British Columbia)
13. After the Colloquial: Legacies of Realistic Expression in Contemporary Japan
Jessica Nakamura (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Contributors
Index