History, Memory, Performance
Published on 1. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
XV, 307 pages
978-1-349-48373-0 (ISBN)
Description
History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts. At its core are contributions from theatre scholars and public historians discussing how historical meaning is shaped through performance.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XV, 307 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-48373-0 (9781349483730)
DOI
10.1057/9781137393890
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
D. Dean | Y. Meerzon | K. Prince
History, Memory, Performance
Book
12/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
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Persons
Johnny Alam, Carleton University, Canada
Rachel E. Bennett, University of Illinois, USA
J. Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa, Canada
Nancy Copeland, University of Toronto, Canada
Jeff Friedman, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, USA
Steven High, Concordia University, Canada
Katherine Johnson, University of Sydney, Australia
Edward (Ted) Little, Concordia University, Canada
Irena (Irene) R. Makaryk, University of Ottawa, Canada
Josy Miller, University of California, Davis, USA
Claudia Tatinge Nascimento, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
Kathryn Prince, University of Ottawa, Canada
Samantha Mitschke, University of Birmingham, UK
VK Preston, McGill University, Canada
Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Tanja Schult, Hugo Valentin Centre at Uppsala, Sweden
Content
Introduction: History, Memory, Performance; David Dean, Yana Meerzon, Kathryn Prince 1. Discursive Practices and Narrative Models: History, Poetry, Philosophy; Freddie Rokem 2. Performing Pasts for Present Purposes: Reenactment as Embodied, Performative History; Katherine Johnson 3. Minding the Gap: The Choreographer as Hyper-historian in Oral History-based Performance; Jeff Friedman 4. Un/becoming Nomad: Marc Lescarbot, Movement, and Metamorphosis in Les Muses de la Nouvelle France; VK Preston 5. Group Biography, Montage, and Modern Women in Hooligans and Building Jerusalem; Nancy Copeland 6. Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov as Epic Theatre; J. Douglas Clayton 7. Shakespeare Inside out: Hamlet as Intertext in the USSR 1934-1943; Irena R. Makaryk 8. Raoul Wallenberg on Stage - or at Stake? Guilt and Shame as Obstacles in the Commemoration of a Holocaust Hero; Tanja Schult 9. Staging Auschwitz, Making Witnesses: Performances between History, Memory, and Myth; Rachel E. Bennett 10. Real Archive, Contested Memory, Fake History: Transnational Representations of Trauma by Lebanese War Generation Artists; Johnny Alam 11. Performing Collective Trauma: 9/11 and the Reconstruction of American Identity; Josy Miller 12. Brazilian Contemporary Theatre: Memories of Violence on the Post-Dictatorship Stage; Claudia Tatinge Nascimento 13. Bent and the Staging of the Queer Holocaust Experience; Samantha Mitschke 14. Partners in Conversation: Ethics and the Emergent Practice of Oral History Performance; Edward Little and Steven High Bibliography Index