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Commedia Dell’Arte: The Mechanisms Of Othering, Olly Crick
Commedia Dell’Arte: The Mechanisms Of Othering, Olly Crick
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
This chapter proposes that the dramaturgic flexibility within historical Commedia dell’Arte was predicated on a performance methodology that demanded a changing pattern of othering, depending on the class, economic strength and region of their audiences.
How To Signify Otherness And Diasporic Bodies Through Puppetry: Two Plays By Kossi Efoui, Francesca Di Fazio
How To Signify Otherness And Diasporic Bodies Through Puppetry: Two Plays By Kossi Efoui, Francesca Di Fazio
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
French-speaking writer of Togolese origin Kossi Efoui resorts to puppetry as a means of communicating the diaspora of the African people and the condition of Otherness experienced by a portion of humanity throughout history.
Alterity In The Arabic And Near Eastern Puppet Theater, Marvin Carlson
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.
Exhibiting Blackface Puppets From The German Imaginary, William T.F. Condee
Exhibiting Blackface Puppets From The German Imaginary, William T.F. Condee
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
German puppet collections face the problem of how—and whether—to display their extensive holdings of blackface puppets that are built on grotesquely racist stereotypes, including the Imagined Turk, the Imagined African, the Imagined African American, and the Imagined Multicultural German.
Ralph Chessé And Forman Brown: When Carving The Other Is Carving The Self, Ben Fisler
Ralph Chessé And Forman Brown: When Carving The Other Is Carving The Self, Ben Fisler
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
This article examines two “closeted” puppeteers, Forman Brown and Ralph Chessé, who demonstrate alterity’s ability to disrupt itself. Their puppets are both exotic (“different from me”) and incorporated (“like me”), as the artists’ hidden racial and sexual identities blur the boundaries between self and other.
Deities Of The Indigenous Snake People In Religious Marionette Plays, Fan Pen Chen
Deities Of The Indigenous Snake People In Religious Marionette Plays, Fan Pen Chen
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
This chapter shows how deities of the indigenes of southeastern China competed with and reacted to the invading mainstream Han culture through six sacred string-puppet plays.
Sicilian Puppet Theater: Alterity Or Diversity?, Jo Ann Cavallo
Sicilian Puppet Theater: Alterity Or Diversity?, Jo Ann Cavallo
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
From the perspective of alterity, the predominant figure of the Other in Sicilian puppet theater is undoubtedly the Saracen (Muslim) aggressor. Yet the Paladins of France cycle, with its over 300 nightly episodes, is replete with stories that eschew an opposition between an “us” and a “them” and instead underscore our common humanity across borders of all kinds. Indeed, camaraderie, friendship, and even romance can readily develop between individuals from the most disparate corners of the globe. My paper focuses on a selection of examples under the guise of both alterity and diversity, the latter achieved especially through heterogamous marriages.