JUNE 2011 (38.2) TABLE OF CONTENTS

SPECIAL ISSUE Ibsen Intercultural: Nora’s Door Slamming Around the Globe Guest Editor: Antje Budde How to Slam the Door, or Not to, or Almost, or Maybe... Configurations of a Speculative Moment in the Global Doll House of Patriarchal Order Antje Budde 145 Sharing A Doll’s House with Islamic Neighbours Julie Holledge 154 Nneora: An African Doll’s House: ‘A Study of the Virtues of Womanhood’ Awo Mana Asiedu 172 Rescuing Sedna: Doorslamming, Fingerslicing, and the Moral of the Story Keavy Martin 186 China Doll: A Conversation with Marjorie Chan Antje Budde and Jacqueline Taucar 201 Nora and Gertrude in “The Same Room” in The Master’s House Louise H. Forsyth 214 Differently Equal: Ibsen’s Nora, the New Woman and the Evolution of Self-Orientalization in Japan Sara Osenton 226 Nora’s Children - A Norwegian-Chinese Theatre Adventure Antje Budde 240 The Critique of Bourgeois Life: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Nora Helmer Ronald Ng 255 Playing (with) Gestic Dolls in Mabou Mines DollHouse Jacqueline Taucar 268 Five Minutes More (Encore cinq minutes) Françoise Loranger, translated by Louise H. Forsyth 283