1 Undefining Heteroglobalization and Theoretical Pluralism Field Overviews 2 National, Global, Local, Planetary, Circulating, Transnational: Overview of Comparative Studies as Practiced in the United States and the United Kingdom 3 Interculturalism, Universality and Resistance: Debates over Intercultural Theatre in the West 4 Indexing: Finding the Japaneseness in Dialectics of Difference Without Distinction 5 Fidelity and Revolution: Modern Japanese Theatre 6 Harmonious Juxtaposition: South African Theories of Foldedness 7 South African Theatre Sans Adjective 8 Nativism, "Tigritude" and Syncretism: Nigerian Theories of and Against Hybridity 9 The Numinous, the Quotidian and Political Resistance: Nigerian Theatre and the World Stage 10 Sinocentric, Positional-Relationality: Chinese Theories of the World 11 The Popular, the People and the Political: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Theatre Interlude 12 Waiting for the Heteroglobal, a Partial Definition in Juxtaposition in Magnet Theatre's I Turned Away and She Was Gone Philosophical and Theoretical Milieu(s) Semiotics 13 Indexicality, Reality, Nation: Philosophies of Language in Japan 14 Process and Community: South African Semiotics Modernity 15 Japanese Modernity as Fractured and Whole 16 National, Modern, Politically Real: The Divisive Core of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Chinese Theatre Subjectivity, the Self and the Actor 17 Conceptions of the Self: Hybrid Acting in Nigeria 18 Marxism, Intension and the Politics of the Group: Acting the Subject in China A Festival 19 Heteroglobal Methods: A ManiFestival of Theatre and Performance.