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What is Cultural Appropriation: Revisiting Peter Brook's Mahabharata by HowlRound

By Tlaloc Rivas. By allowing only a European/Western perspective to lead the artistic presentation of stories about class, race, and gender, are we continuing to allow those narratives to be appropriated, assimilated, or turned into the universal, etc. to the point of irrelevance? Perhaps in the attempt to distill a story to its essence there is a dilution that takes place at the hands of the dominant culture?

SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:35AM on February 6, 2014

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