National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion (Cultural Spaces)
National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion (Cultural Spaces)
In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of ‘Quebec-ness’ for audiences both within and outside the province? In exploring Expo 67, the critical response to Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles Soeurs, Carbone 14′s image-theatre, Marco Micone’s writing practices, Celine Dion’s popular music, and feminist performance of the 1970s and 80s, Hurley reveals the ways in which certain performances come to be understood as ‘national’ while others are relegated to sub-national or outsider status. Each chapter focuses on
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