Theatre/Performance Historiography
Time, Space, Matter
Published on 23. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
VII, 270 pages
978-1-349-48488-1 (ISBN)
Description
How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner contradictions in social and ideological organizations of historical subjects.
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Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
VII, 270 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-48488-1 (9781349484881)
DOI
10.1057/9781137397300
Schweitzer Classification
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04/2015
Palgrave MacMillan
€106.99
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Persons
Kelly Aliano, Graduate School, CUNY, USA
Patricia Ybarra, Brown University, USA
Yael Zarhy-Levo, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Angenette Spalink, Bowling Green State University, USA
Scott Magelssen, University of Washington, USA
Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia, Canada
Pannill Camp, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Kaitlin McNally-Murphy, New York University, USA
Will Daddario, University of Minnesota, USA
Jan Lazardzig, University of Chicago, USA
Jon D. Rossini, University of California, Davis, USA
Gwyneth Shanks, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Content
Introduction PART I: THE SPACE OF FORMATIONS 1. Performing Speciation: The Nature/Culture Divide at The Creation Museum; Angenette Spalink and Scott Magelssen 2. A Ridiculous Space: Considering the Historiography of the Theatre of the Ridiculous; Kelly Aliano 3. The Evolving Process of an Historical View: Aleks Sierz and British Theatre in the 1990s; Yael Zarhy-Levo 4. Latino/a dramaturgy as Historiography; Patricia Ybarra PART II: TEMPORAL MATTER 5. The Design of Theatrical Wonder in Roy Mitchell's The Chester Mysteries; Patricia Badir 6. Performing Ruhe: Police, Taste, and the Archive; Jan Lazardzig 7. The Materiality of Memory: Touching, Seeing, and Being the Past in Patricio Guzmán's Chile, Memoria Obstinada; Kaitlin McNally-Murphy PART III: MATERIAL SPACES 8. Adorno, Baroque, Gardens, Ruzzante: Rearranging Theatre Historiography; Will Daddario 9. A Critique of Historio-Scenography: Space and Time in Joseph-François-Louis Grobert's De l'exécution dramatique; Pannill Camp 10. The Ground of (Im)Potential: Historiography and the Earthquake; Gwyneth Shanks 11. Thinking the Space(s) of Historiography: Latina/o Ethnicity Theatre; Jon D. Rossini