Violence Performed

Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict
2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-29839-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 391 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

Reihe: Studies in International Performance

This topical collection explores the relationship between violence and performance. The authors offer fresh theoretical perspectives and examine media as diverse as street theatre, performance art, photography and cinema in locations as diverse as Korea and South Africa to India and Israel.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Menon, J.

Anderson, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Violence Performed; P.Anderson and J.Menon
Sublime Trauma: The Violence of Ethical Encounter; L.Wade
The "Outsider" Outside: Performing Immigration in French Street Theatre; S.Haedicke
The Poetics of Displacement and the Politics of Genocide in Three Plays about Rwanda; L.Edmondson
The Case for Postcolonial Liberalism in Hanif Kureishi's My Son the Fanatic; E.Kent
Decorated Death and the Double Whammy: Attempting to Erase the Excluded through Minstrelsy and Lynching; B.Lewis
Sacrificial Practices: Creating the Legacy of Stephen Lawrence; M.K.Dahl
Violence Makes the Body Politic(al): Technologies of Corporeal Literacy in Indian Democracy; M.Dodd
Performance, Transitional Justice, and the Law: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission; C.Cole
'To Lie Down to Death for Days': The Turkish Hunger Strike, 2000-2003; P.Anderson
The Arts of Resistance: Arundhati Roy, Denise Uyehara, and the Ethno-global Imagination; K.Katrak
Violent Reformations: Image Theatre with Youth in Conflict Regions; S.A.Kuftinec
Narrative Representations of Violence and Terrorism: Tragedy and History in Hanoch Levin's Theatre; F.Rokem
Not So Innocent Landscapes: Remembrance, Representation, and the Disappeared; M.Phelan
Directing Tourists and Escapees: North Korea's Two Conflicting National Performances; S-Y.Kim
Abu Ghraib and the Society of the Spectacle of the Scaffold; J.McKenzie
Performance Complexes: Abu Ghraib and the Culture of Neoliberalism; T.Perucci
Afterword: 'In the Valley of the Shadow of Death': The Photographs of Abu Ghraib; P.Phelan
Index

Über Autor(innen)

CATHERINE COLE is Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA

MARY KAREN DAHL is Professor of Theatre at Florida State University, USA

MAYA DODD is Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Education at FLAME (Foundation for Liberal and Management Education) in Pune, India

LAURA EDMONDSON is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at Dartmouth College, USA

SUSAN HAEDICKE currently teaches Performance Studies and Theatre History and Theory in the Department of Theatre at University of Maryland/College Park, USA

KETU KATRAK is a Professor of Asian-American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA

EDDY KENT is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada

SUK-YOUNG KIM is Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

SONJA KUFTINEC is an Associate Professor of Theater Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota, USA

BARBARA LEWIS is the Director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA, where she holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Africana Studies and English

JON MCKENZIE is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin, USA

TONY PERUCCI is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, USA

MARK PHELAN is a Lecturer in Drama at Queen's University Belfast, UK

PEGGY PHELAN is the Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts and Professor of Drama and English at Stanford University, USA

FREDDIE ROKEM is Professor of Theatre Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel

LES WADE is Associate Professor of Dramatic Literature, Theory, and Criticism at Louisiana State University, USA