Varghese Palestinian Theatre in the West Bank

Our Human Faces
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-30247-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 166 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Since the 1990s, Palestinian theatrical activities in the West Bank have expanded exponentially. As well as local productions, Palestinian theatre-makers have presented their work to international audiences on a scale unprecedented in Palestinian history. This book explores the histories of the five major theatre companies currently working in the West Bank: Al-Kasaba Theatre, Ashtar Theatre, Al-Harah Theatre, The Freedom Theatre and Al-Rowwad. Taking the first intifada (1987-93) as his point of departure, and drawing on original fieldwork and interviews with Palestinian practitioners, Gabriel Varghese introduces the term ‘abject counterpublics’ to explore how theatre-makers contest Zionist discourse and Israeli state practices. By foregrounding Palestinian voices, and placing theories of abjection and counterpublic formation in conversation with each other, Varghese argues that theatre in the West Bank has been regulated by processes of colonial abjection and, yet, it is an important site for resisting Zionism's discourse of erasure and Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid.  Palestinian Theatre in the West Bank: Our Human Faces  is the first major account of Palestinian theatre covering the last three decades.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Varghese, Gabriel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Cultural intifada, beautiful resistance.- Chapter 3: Aren’t we human?.- Chapter 4: A stage of one’s own.- Chapter 5: Acting on the pain of others.

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriel Varghese is an associate research fellow at the Kenyon Institute (Council for British Research in the Levant) in East Jerusalem. His research engages with anti-/post-/de-colonial theatre, performance and literature, and the questions they raise about social movements, dramaturgies of urban life, and regimes of gender, sexuality and race. He is also a playwright, theatre director, and co-artistic director of Sandpit Arts, an award-winning platform for producing film, music and performance events. He holds a PhD in Drama from the University of Exeter.