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Author: Marcus Cheng Chye Tan Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030346862 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 301
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Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary is an important reconsideration of the histories and practices of theatre and performance in a fluid and dynamic region that is also experiencing an overarching politics of complexity, precarity and populist authoritarian tendencies. In a substantial introductory essay and essays by leading scholars, activists and practitioners working inside the region, the book explores fundamental questions for the arts. The book asks how theatre contributes to and/or addresses the political condition in the contemporary moment, how does it represent the complexity of experiences in peoples’ daily lives and how does theatre engage in forms of political activism and enable a diversity of voices to flourish. The book shows how, in an age of increasingly violent politics, political institutions become sites for bad actors and propaganda. Forces of biopolitics, neo-liberalism and religious and ethnic nationalism intersect in unpredictable ways with decolonial practices – all of which the book argues are forces that define the contemporary moment. Indeed, by putting the focus on contemporary politics in the region alongside the diversity of practices in contemporary theatre, we see a substantial reformation of the idea of the contemporary moment, not as a cosmopolitan and elite artistic practice but as a multivalent agent of change in both aesthetic and political terms. With its focus on community activism and the creative possibilities of the performing arts the region, Performing Southeast Asia, is a timely intervention that brings us to a new understanding of how contemporary Southeast Asia has become a site of contest, struggle and reinvention of the relations between the arts and society. Peter Eckersall The Graduate Center City University of New York Performing Southeast Asia – with chapters concerned with how regional theatres seek contextually-grounded, yet post-national(istic) forms; how history and tradition shape but do not hold down contemporary theatre; and how, in the editors’ words, such artistic encounters could result in theatres ‘that do not merely attend to matters of cultural heritage, tradition or history, but instead engage overtly with theatre and performance in the contemporary’ – contributes to the possibility of understanding what options for an artistically transubstantiated now-ness may be: to the possibility, that is, of what might be called a ‘Present-Tense Theatre’. C. J. W.-L. Wee Professor of English Nanyang Technological University Performing Southeast Asia examines contemporary performance practices and their relationship with politics and governance in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century. In a region haunted historically by strongman politics, authoritarianism and militarism, religious tension and ethnic strife, the chapters reveal how contemporary theatre and performances in the present reflect yet challenge dominant socio-political discourses. The authors analyse works of political commitment and conviction, created and performed by Southeast Asian artists, as modes and platforms of reaction and resistance to the shifting political climates that inform contemporary life in urban Southeast Asia. The discussions center on issues of state hegemonies and biopolitics, finance and sponsorship, social liberalism and conservatism, the relevance of history and tradition, and globalisation and cultural practice. These diverse yet related concerns converge on an examination of the efficacies of theatre and performance as means of political intervention and transformation that point to alternative embodiments of political consciousness through which artists propose critical options for rethinking the state, citizenship, identity and belonging in a time of seismic socio-political change. The editors also reframe an understanding of ‘the contemporary’ not simply as a temporal adjective but, in the context of present Southeast Asia, as a geopolitical condition that shapes artistic and performance practices.
Author: Patricia West-Jones Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 146534800X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 106
Book Description
Local poet and singer Patricia West-Jones has been composing poetry since 1998. Originally from New York, but born in Atlantic City, West-Jones father died when she was seven years old. The years following were troubled times. She remembers sitting for hours sucking her fingers, something she continued to do for many years, seeking comfort. Now she finds peace and comfort writing poetry and short stories. A wife and mother of two daughters and a son, Pat works for the Pleasantville School District in the Counseling Department. West Jones says that for her life is like the following: One day she was working out on a track that went round and old house that sits on the bay. She is walking bent over because the breeze off the water had picked up and was pressing her back; it was very difficult to go forward. When she rounded the bend, the wind was now at her back pushing her forward. So for Pat, life at times presses her back but with prayer and determination she presses her way as her writing moves her ever closer to peace. Patricia West-Jones poems will appeal to a diverse audience: Women, mothers, and Christians, as well as those who have struggled to find themselves on their life journey
Author: Carrie Elizabeth Greene Publisher: Genesis Press, Inc. ISBN: 158571495X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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The question for Donovan and Rachel Kerr is whether glamour, fame and riches mean more than their Christian faith. Marcus Henderson, whose murky and sinister lifestyle injects temptation and danger into their lives, will force them to answer this question quickly.
Author: Crystal Hubbard Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 9781585712885 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
A Hollywood heartthrob and a gutsy entertainment reporter engage in a high-stakes game of emotional chess as he strives to protect his secrets and she tries to boost her career. Original.
Author: LaConnie Taylor-Jones Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 9781585712748 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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A nursing administrator who has sworn off love is pursued by a handsome, single-dad pediatrician who is determined to win her heart. Original.
Author: Cheris F. Hodges Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 9781585713011 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 374
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Detective Caprice Johnson finds her career and life on the line when her ex-fiancé is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect in the investigation, forcing her to place her trust in her handsome new partner, Nathan Wallace, to clear her name. Original.
Author: S. R. Maddox Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 9781585713189 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 386
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When a career-minded woman who has lived her entire life under the shadow of her famous mother becomes involved with a Cajun blues musician, she must learn to shed the constricting limits of her family and live life on her terms. Original.
Author: Beverly Clark Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 9781585713066 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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Waking up in the hospital after collapsing from exhaustion, supermodel Lily Jordan is instantly attracted to Dr. Philip Cardoneaux, but refuses to pursue a relationship with him because he is white, until she discovers what is truly important in life--love. Original.
Author: Judy Baer
Author: Judy Baer
Author: Marcus Cheng Chye Tan
Author: Patricia West-Jones
Author: Carrie Elizabeth Greene
Author: Crystal Hubbard
Author: LaConnie Taylor-Jones
Author: Cheris F. Hodges
Author: S. R. Maddox
Author: Maryam Diaab
Author: Beverly Clark