Performance, Exile and 'America'

List of illustrations Series editors' preface Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: Framing 'America': Between Exilic Imaginary and Exilic Collective; S.Jestrovic & Y.Meerzon PART 1: 'AMERICA' BETWEEN THE EXILIC IMAGINARY AND THE EXILIC COLLECTIVE Land of Air-conditioning and Opportunity: America on the Irish Stage; E.Fitzpatrick Ninety Miles Away: Exile and Identity in Recent Cuban-American Dramas; Y.Prizant An American Mile in Others' Shoes' - The Tragicomedy of Immigrating to the 21st Century U.S.; D.Manole The American Landscape Reconsidered. On Theatricality of Urban America in the Russian Émigré Writings, with the special focus on Vasily Aksyonov's works; Y.Meerzon PART 2: AMERICAN PERFORMATIVITY Theatres in America: Brecht and Kafka; F.Rokem America Relocated - Karel Capek's Robots between Prague, Berlin and New York; V.Ambros At Home in Exile: Finding America in Casablanca and Camino Real ; A.Ackerman PART 3: AMERICA AND THE OTHER: FROM REPRESENTATION TO INTERVENTION De-Territorializing Voices: Staging the Middle East in American Theatre; E.Jaffe-Berg Current Trends in Arab-American Performance; D.Basiouny & M.Carlson Bombing (on) the Border: Ali& Ali and the aXes of Evil as Transnational Agitprop; J.Wasserman Exiles and the City: Krzysztof Wodiczko's New York Interventions of Making the Familiar Strange; S.Jestrovic Index