Siting the Other: Re-visions of Marginality in Australian and Anglophone Canadian Drama.(Book Review)

Publication: Australian Literary Studies

Publication Date: 01-OCT-02

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COPYRIGHT 2002 University of Queensland Press

edited by Marc Maufort. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2001. Hardback, US$49.95

Marc Maufort introduces this book as a `sequel' to his earlier collection of essays, Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama (Peter Lang, 1995). Just recently, he published another meaty critical anthology (co-edited with Franca Bellarsi), Crucible of Cultures: Anglophone Drama at the Dawn of a New Millennium (Peter Lang, 2002), which he positions as the `third phase of a trilogy' devoted to contemporary drama and multiculturalism in the (developed) English-speaking world (13). By any measure, these books collectively make a substantial contribution to scholarship in the field, bringing together new critical essays by highly-regarded scholars and, to a lesser extent, those not often found among the `usual suspects' included in such books.

While the reach of Maufort's overall project is impressive, the specific material he puts together and circulates for the critical market has less coherence than he suggests, a factor particularly apparent in Siting the...

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