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Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects

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Alterity In The Arabic And Near Eastern Puppet Theater, Marvin Carlson Jan 2023

Alterity In The Arabic And Near Eastern Puppet Theater, Marvin Carlson

Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects

This essay studies uses of alterity in the medieval plays of Egyptian Ibn Daniyal and selected modern Karagoz plays from Turkey, considering the alterity of the puppet itself and also the social alterities represented by the puppets in these works.