Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre
Mary Mazzilli, "Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre"
English | ISBN: 1472591607 | 2015 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1472591607 | 2015 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays. Since relocating to France in 1987, in a voluntary exile from China, he has assembled a body of dramatic work that has best been understood neither as expressly Chinese nor French, but as transnational.
In this comprehensive study of his post-exile plays, Mary Mazzilli explores Gao's plays as examples of postdramatic transnationalism: a transnational artistic and theatrical trend that is fluid, flexible and full of variety of styles and influences. As such this innovative interdisciplinary investigation offers fresh insights on contemporary theatre.
Whereas other publications have considered Gao's work as a cultural and artistic phenomenon,
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