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Chinese Adaptations of Brecht: Appropriation and Intertextuality

Chinese Adaptations of Brecht: Appropriation and Intertextuality

Zhang, Wei

Paperback

Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3030377806
ISBN13: 9783030377809
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Apr 9 2021
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Wei Zhang considers how Brecht's plays have been adapted/appropriated by Chinese theatre artists to speak to the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural developments in China and how such endeavors reflect and result from dynamic interactions between Chinese philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, especially as embodied in traditional xiqu and the Brechtian concepts of estrangement (Verfremdungseffekt) and political theatre. In examining these Brecht adaptations, Zhang offers an interdisciplinary study that contributes to the fields of comparative drama/theatre studies, intercultural studies, and performance studies.

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