Spectre of Tradition and the Aesthetic-Political Movement of Theatre and Performance

<p>This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds.</p><p>In contrast to the predominantly Western approaches which look at traditions (Western and non-Western) from a predominantly (Western) modernist perspective this book interrogates from an intercultural perspective the transnational and transcultural consecration translation (re)invention and displacement of traditions (theatrical and cultural) in the aesthetic-political movement of twentieth-century theatre and performance as exemplified in the case studies of this book. It looks at the question of traditions and modernities at the centre of this aesthetic-political space as modernities interculturally evoke and are haunted by traditions and as traditions are interculturally refracted reconstituted refunctioned and reinvented. It also looks at the applicability of its intercultural perspective on tradition to the historical avant-garde in general postmodern postcolonial and postdramatic theatre and performance and to the twentieth-century classical intercultural theatre and the twenty-first-century new interculturalisms in theatre and performance. To conclude it looks at the future of tradition in the ecology of our globalized <em>theatrum mundi</em> and considers two important interrelated concepts future tradition and intercultural tradition.</p><p>This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies.</p>