ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY: Global Performance

The major issues in cultural practice today include identity crisis, creation of a new national culture, conflicts derived from regional imbalance in economic development and power sharing, fear of erosion of indigenous values and problems of morals and cultures in the waves of cyber streams and globalization. However, these issues, are invariably related to the key issues of cultural identity and ethnicity. The identity that defines the sense of nation, community and ethnic roots is generally linked to the politics of nationalism, national integration and political contests.

The purpose of the texts included in this book is to highlight these points and treat the intercultural phenomenon carefully, to reflect on what it implies on social, political as well as aesthetic levels.

Ravi Chaturvedi is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Dramatics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He is also the member of the Executive Committee of International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR).

Brian Singleton is Head of Samuel Backett Center in Trinity College, Dublin and the Vice President of International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR). He is Senior Editor of Theatre Research International (Cambridge University Press).