Description
Book SynopsisExamining theatre forms and artists from China, Japan, and Korea,
Realisms in East Asian Performance brings together a group of theatre historians to reconsider realism through the performing arts of East Asia.
Trade ReviewWhile many studies exist on the classical and contemporary theatres of East Asia, a focus on modern drama and realisms – arguably the most popular forms of theatre with audiences in the region– have been widely overlooked and undertheorized… Well conceptualized, addressing a critical gap in knowledge in the field, and including texts by the leading scholars in the field,
Realisms in East Asian Performance poses important questions about theatre and modernity in East Asia." - Peter Eckersall, CUNY Graduate Center
"A groundbreaking work on directing theory and practice from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective. Well-articulated and convincing, the book succeeds in offering a more inclusive definition of realism and its varied practice that will be very useful for both Western and non-Western theater scholars." - Xiaomei Chen, University of California, Davis
"Too often performance culture is divided into ‘traditional’ theatre (i.e., the indigenous performance traditions of a nation) and ‘modern’ (meaning Western-influenced naturalistic theatre developed after contact with Europe). This volume destroys that artificial bifurcation, offering a far more complex and nuanced reading of ‘traditional’ and modern Asian theatres than is seen in standard textbooks." - Kevin Wetmore, Loyola Marymount University
Table of Contents
- 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
