Troubling Traditions : Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US (Hardcover)

Introduction I. Troubling Traditions - Lindsey Mantoan, Matthew Moore, Angela Farr Schiller; Part One: Costs of Canonicity; 1 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly in Theater, Dance and Performance Studies - Nadine George-Graves;2 The Shakespeare Problem: A Conversation - Madeline Sayet, with Sarah Enloe, Mei Ann Teo, and Dawn Monique Williams; 3 "Go back to India if you hate my people so much": Consequences of Troubling the "Canon" in American Academia - Sukanya Chakrabarti; 4 Despite the Flames: A Conversation - Patricia Ybarra, Virginia Grise, and Victor I. Cazares; 5 The Black Gaze / A Different Account - Eric M. Glover and Isaiah Matthew Wooden; 6 Amidst the Rubble of the Ivory Tower - Sara Brady; Part Two: Remixing Traditions; 7 Shaking up the Canon with Cornerstone and OSF - Sonja Arsham Kuftinec and Bill Rauch; 8 "Yo, Let's Steal Their Canons!": Arab and Arab American Canonical Multiplicities - Samer Al-Saber and Michael Malek Najjar; 10 Your Heritage is Safe Here: Defining Three Indigenous Theatrical Canons - Jay B Muskett and Jonah Winn-Lenetsky; 11 "Frenemies" of the Canon: Our Two Decades of Studying and Teaching Disability in Drama and Performance - Ann M. Fox and Carrie Sandahl; 12 The Uses of Awe - Rinde Eckert and Ellen McLaughlin; Part Three: Fluid Approaches; 13 Toward and Away: The Dramatic Tension of a Queer & Trans Canon - Finn Lefevre; 14 Dancing With/Out the Canon - Hannah Kossrin; 15 What do we do with the Musical Theater Canon?- Stacy Wolf, with Masi Asare, Rob Berman, Randall Eng, Eric M. Glover, David Savran, Georgia Stitt, Brandon Webster, and Sarah Whitfield; 16 Canons in Motion: Japanese Performance, Theatre History, and the Currents of Knowledge - Jyana S. Browne and Jessica Nakamura; 17 The Kids’ Table: Cross-institutional Treatment of the Canon and the Un-canonizable Nature of New Work - Charlie Dubach-Reinhold and Melory Mirashrafi; Part Four: Departures and Re-visions; 18 Rethinking the Canon through the Digital - Miguel Escobar Varela and Derek Miller; 19 Antigone is Dead, Long Live Antigones!: Adaptation, Difference, and Instability at the Heart of the Traditional Western Canon - Rachel M. E. Wolfe; 20 Redirecting Canonicity: PhD Exams and Actor Training - Eero Laine and Peter Zazzali; 21 We Aren’t Here to Teach What We Already Know - Jessica Brater and Michelle Liu Carriger; 22 How Do We Do the Queer Canon? - Zachary A. Dorsey, with Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Michelle Dvoskin, Lindsey Mantoan, Eleanor Owicki, Jaclyn I. Pryor, and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera