History, memory, performance /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Dean, D. M. (David M.) (Editor), Meerzon, Yana (Editor), Prince, Kathryn, 1973- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:Studies in international performance.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / David Dean, Yana Meerzon, and Kathryn Prince
  • Discursive practices and narrative models: history, poetry, philosophy / Freddie Rokem
  • Performing pasts for present purposes: reenactment as embodied, performative history / Katherine Johnson
  • Minding the gap: the choreographer as hyper-historian in oral history-based performance / Jeff Friedman
  • Un/becoming nomad: Marc Lescarbot, movement, and metamorphosis in Les muses de la nouvelle France / VK Preston
  • Group biography, montage, and modern women in Hooligans and Building Jerusalem / Nancy Copeland
  • Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov as epic theatre / J. Douglas Clayton
  • Shakespeare inside out: Hamlet as intertext in the USSR 1934-43 / Irena R. Makaryk
  • Raoul Wallenberg on stage
  • or at stake? Guilt and shame as obstacles in the Swedish commemoration of their Holocaust hero / Tanja Schult
  • Staging Auschwitz, making witnesses: performances between history, memory, and myth / Rachel E. Bennett
  • Real archive, contested memory, fake history: transnational representations of trauma by Lebanese War Generation artists / Johnny Alam
  • Performing collective trauma: 9/11 and the reconstruction of American identity / Josy Miller
  • Contemporary Brazilian theatre: memories of violence on the post-dictatorship stage / Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento
  • Bent and the staging of the queer Holocaust experience / Samantha Mitschke
  • Partners in conversation: ethics and the emergent practice of oral history performance / Edward Little and Steven High.