Performing Exile, Performing Self

YANA MEERZON Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests are in theater and drama theory. Her book The Path of a Character: Michael Chekhov's Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics was published in 2005. Her latest publication is a collection of articles (co-edited with Silvija Jestrovic) Performance, Exile and 'America', November 2009, Palgrave.

• Acknowledgements Prologue: Performing Exile – Performing Self PART I: PERFORMING LANGUAGE Heteroglossia of a Castaway The Land of a Divide PART II: PERFORMING IMAGE The Dream of a Floating Island The Quest for Exilic Anthropophany PART III: PERFORMING MEDIA Performing Media The Prodigal Son Framing the Ancestry Epilogue: On the Lessons of Exilic Theatre, Performing Exile, Performing Self Bibliography Index