Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific : Regional Modernities in the Global Era

"Teaching has been described as a hazardous profession and teacher educators are faced with a challenging task in preparing teachers for the future. Human rights are high on the international agenda but also have direct implications for teachers and students in the classroom. Originally published in 1996, this book brings together teacher education and human rights to examine how we might best educate children and young people for citizenship. Drawing on case studies from the UK, Europe and internationally, the authors provide practical suggestions for ways in which teachers can increase young people's awareness of the importance of securing their rights and those of others in the community. Looking particularly at how teachers might challenge injustice, racism and xenophobia, they examine human rights as a basis for educational policies and discuss how international human rights instruments can be incorporated into the teacher education curriculum. The book will benefit teacher trainers, teachers and education policy makers concerned with race, gender and special needs: undergraduate and postgraduate student teachers and educational researchers."--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Regional Modernities in the Global Era....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Modern Australian Drama: Haunted by the Past....Pages 17-32 Modernity and the Self in Singapore: Emily of Emerald Hill....Pages 33-48 Modern Drama and Postcolonial Modernity in Indonesia....Pages 49-63 Hirata Oriza’s Tokyo Notes and the New Modern....Pages 64-76 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 Solid and Liquid Modernities in Regional Australia....Pages 79-94 Staging Indonesian Modernity After Suharto....Pages 95-111 ‘Youth is not the only thing that passes at sonic speed’: Speed and Private Lives in Okada Toshiki’s The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise....Pages 112-125 Dramaturgy of the Liquid: Cargo Kuala Lumpur–Singapore....Pages 126-139 Front Matter....Pages 141-141 Australian Adaptations: The European Turn....Pages 143-157 Performing Liquid Modernity: Chay Yew’s Visible Cities in Singapore....Pages 158-169 Performing ‘Authentic Indonesia’ Transculturally....Pages 170-185 Kawamura Takeshi’s Theatre and the Spectacle of Adaptation....Pages 186-197 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 Cultural Exchange, Arts Festivals and Markers of Modernity....Pages 201-216 Conclusion....Pages 217-221 Back Matter....Pages 222-253 "Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific" is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. The sites encompass marked differences in language, performance, history and politics, and variations in the solidity and volatility of their imagined worlds. Recognizing these differences, the book explores contrasts in each nation as it identifies with the region and the cultural interconnections that support a regional identity. While the four nations demonstrate degrees of ambivalence and connection to the Asia-Pacific as a region, the project argues that relations to modernity and globalization are less nation-specific. The project articulates a regional configuration of modernity which is multiple, contradictory but nonetheless regional. Each nation has in common the imperative to reconcile with and adapt to European modernity in a way that renders global modernity multiple rather than singular This book is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. The sites encompass marked differences in language, performance, history and politics, and variations in the solidity and volatility of their imagined worlds. Recognizing these differences, the book explores contrasts in each nation as it identifies with the region and the cultural interconnections that support a regional identity. While the four nations demonstrate degrees of ambivalence and connection to the Asia-Pacific as a region, the project argues that relations to modernity and globalization are less nation-specific. The project articulates a regional configuration of modernity which is multiple, contradictory but nonetheless regional. Each nation has in common the imperative to reconcile with and adapt to European modernity in a way that renders global modernity multiple rather than singular Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.