Drama and Diversity: A Pluralistic Perspective for Educational Drama (review)

and myths, takes its own voice, as Edward Said’s put it, and shouts its existence. It is à propos to concludewith a commentary by Edward Said (1978), which resonates throughout the current anthology. The commentary is cited by Agnieszka Tuszynska in her piece in Glajar and Radulescu’s book (203). Referring to the Oriental woman in Flaubert’s novel, Salambo, published in 1862, Saidwrites that ‘‘[s]he [l’Orient] never spoke of herself, she never represented her emotions, presence, or history. He [l’Occident] spoke for and represented her.’’ Glajar and Radulescu’s book frees Eastern-European women from Western greed for all that is exotic in femininity. The book banishes old perceptions and substitutes honest and original testaments to a new era.