Theaters of Citizenship: Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt, Pahwa Sonali

Автор: Soyica Diggs Colbert
Название: Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics
ISBN: 0813588510 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813588513
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Received the 2018 Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre?Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. The post–Jim Crow, post–apartheid, postcolonial era has ushered in a purportedly color blind society and along with it an assault on race-based forms of knowledge production and coalition formation. Soyica Diggs Colbert argues that in the late twentieth century race went “underground,” and by the twenty-first century race no longer functioned as an explicit marker of second-class citizenship. The subterranean nature of race manifests itself in discussions of the Trayvon Martin shooting that focus on his hoodie, an object of clothing that anyone can choose to wear, rather than focusing on structural racism; in discussions of the epidemic proportions of incarcerated black and brown people that highlight the individual’s poor decision making rather than the criminalization of blackness; in evaluations of black independence struggles in the Caribbean and Africa that allege these movements have accomplished little more than creating a black ruling class that mirrors the politics of its former white counterpart. Black Movements intervenes in these discussions by highlighting the ways in which artists draw from the past to create coherence about blackness in present and future worlds. Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits connecting people across space and time, Black Movements offers important interventions into performance, literary, diaspora, and African American studies.

Автор: Eddie Paterson
Название: The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics
ISBN: 147258502X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472585028
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world.

Eddie Paterson traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O'Neill and Williams, before offering a comprehensive analysis of several of the most influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance.

The Contemporary American Monologue constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon.

Автор: Nadje Al-Ali, Deborah Al-Najjar
Название: We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War
ISBN: 0815629079 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815629078
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: While the occupation of Iraq and its aftermath has received media and political attention, we know very little about the everyday lives of Iraqis. Iraqi men, women, and children are not merely passive victims of violence, vulnerable recipients of repressive regimes, or bystanders of their country’s destruction. In the face of danger and trauma, Iraqis continue to cope, preparing food, sending their children to school, socializing, telling jokes, and dreaming of a better future. Within the realm of imagination and creative expression, the editors find that many Iraqi artists have not only survived but have also sought healing.In We Are Iraqis, Al-Ali and Al-Najjar showcase written and visual contributions by Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the way Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce art and activism as ways of coping with despair and resisting chaos and destruction. The first anthology of its kind, We Are Iraqis brings into focus the multitude of ethnicities, religions, and experiences that are all part of Iraq.

Автор: Creedon
Название: Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance
ISBN: 113753057X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137530578
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: By concentrating on Sam Shepard`s visual aesthetics, Emma Creedon argues that a consideration of Shepard`s plays in the context of visual and theoretical Surrealism illuminates our understanding of his experimental approach to drama.

Автор: Finburgh
Название: Jean Genet: Performance and Politics
ISBN: 1403994803 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403994806
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Explores the political significance of Genet`s performance practice by focusing on his radical experiments, polemical subjects and formal innovations in theatre, film and dance. This book brings together the aspects of Genet`s work through essays by international scholars and interviews with theatre directors such as Richard Schechner and others.

Автор: Mari R. Rostami
Название: Kurdish Nationalism on Stage: Performance, Politics and Resistance in Iraq
ISBN: 178831400X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788314008
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Since its emergence in the 1920s, Iraqi-Kurdish theatre was used as a tool of national identity building and modernisation. It promoted literacy, education and women’s rights and became one of the most visible forms of Kurdish cultural nationalism by exploring folklore, myths, legends and local history and by celebrating heroes of the past. As time went on, by staging anti-feudalist and anti-monarchist plays, theatre became engaged in representing and legitimising the wider political movement in Iraq that ultimately led to the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958. Between 1975-1991, even under strict censorship during the Baath rule, Kurdish theatre continued to promote Kurdish nationalism and resistance through the use of Kurdish folk culture and literature. This book is based on dramatic texts from the period, interviews with Kurdish theatre artists, Kurdish theatre histories, historical documents, and journalistic accounts. It illustrates the ways in which theatre participated in the Kurdish national struggle and how it responded to political changes in different historical periods. It is the first book dedicated to Kurdish theatre and complements the latest research that examines theatre in its wider socio-political context.