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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Patrick Anderson; Jisha Menon |
| ISBN: | 9780230537262 023053726X |
| OCLC Number: | 181600997 |
| Description: | xiv, 391 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: violence performed / Patrick Anderson and Jisha Menon -- Sublime trauma: the violence of ethical encounter / Leslie A. Wade -- The "outsider" outside: performing immigration in French street theatre / Susan Haedicke -- The poetics of displacement and the politics of genocide in three plays about Rwanda / Laura Edmondson -- The case for postcolonial Liberalism in Hanif Kureishi's My Son the Fanatic / Eddy Kent -- Decorated death and the double whammy: attempting to erase the excluded through minstrelsy and lynching / Barbara Lewis -- Sacrificial practices: creating the legacy of Stephen Lawrence / Mary Karen Dahl -- Violence makes the body politic(al): technologies of corporeal literacy in Indian democracy / Maya Dodd -- Performance, transitional justice, and the law: South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission / Catherine M. Cole -- "To lie down to death for days": the Turkish hunger strike, 2000-2003 / Patrick Anderson -- Violent reformations: image theatre with youth in conflict regions / Sonia Arsham Kuftinec -- The arts of resistance: Arundhati Roy, Denise Uyehara, and the ethno-global imagination / Ketu H. Katrak -- Narrative representations of violence and terrorism: tragedy and history in Hanock Levin's theatre / Freddie Rokem -- Not so Innocent Landscapes: remembrance, representation, and the disappeared / Mark Phelan -- Directing tourists and escapes: North Korea's two conflicting national performances / Suk-Young Kim -- Abu Ghraib and the society of the spectacle of the scaffold / Jon McKenzie -- Performance complexes: Abu Ghraib and the culture of neoliberalism / Tony Perucci. |
| Series Title: | Studies in international performance. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Patrick Anderson and Jisha Menon. |
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'...vibrant and vital collection...' - Theatre Research International 'Violence Performed is an important contribution to studies of violence in political contexts worldwide' - Lynette Hunter, Professor of the History of Rhetoric and Performance, UC Davis, USA 'Violence Performed is more than a collection of essays: it is a call to critical arms for all scholars in theatre and performance studies engaged with the challenges of bearing witness to global violence, and to the violence of the "global" as a constitutive discourse of late modernity. Anderson and Menon ask us to explore not only the places and performances of cultural and political trauma, but also the larger ethical questions that attend our work on trauma "elsewhere". What are the politics of performing violence? Of writing about violence performed? These are the urgent questions at the heart of this valuable book.'- Kim Solga, Associate Professor of English, University of Western Ontario, Canada 'Few works balance the theoretical charge of their arguments with such powerful contempoary examples. Given that the emphasis is on the performative aspects of violence, the editors do a terrifc work of examining not merely the staged (which assumes social and political actors) but also the spectacular (that which assumes rapid dissemination and disruption of the social) dimensions of public violence.' - Aishwary Kumar, Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History, Stanford University, USA Read more...
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