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Article: Transgressive Itineraries: Postcolonial Hybridizations of Dramatic Realism.(Book Review)
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- Australian Literary Studies
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- May 1, 2004
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Transgressive Itineraries: Postcolonial Hybridizations of Dramatic Realism, by Marc Maufort. Bruxelles: PIE-Peter Lang, 2003. 29.90 [euro].
Realism, as this useful comparative study reminds us, is the most problematical and paradoxical of dramatic styles. As an aesthetic, theatrical or even political programme, it is inherently unattainable: the representational codes of performance ensure that the more 'real' it appears, the more artificial it must necessarily be. As a marker of a particular moment in Modernism, capital-R Realism usefully describes a late-nineteenth-century body of discourses which attempted to shift theatre socially from popular to bourgeois ...