Southern stages : space and memory in US performance /
"Description: What if space could remember as well as people? What histories, hidden and visible, might be held in space? Southern Stages offers an engaging new model for considering how memory, imagination, and performance intersect in spaces that have shaped hundreds of years of American hist...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Studies in theatre history and culture
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| Summary: | "Description: What if space could remember as well as people? What histories, hidden and visible, might be held in space? Southern Stages offers an engaging new model for considering how memory, imagination, and performance intersect in spaces that have shaped hundreds of years of American history. Beginning with the space of the southern plantation, this book plumbs the depths of key sites for the ways in which memory has shaped spaces central to the history of the American South including monuments and the theatrical stage. With chapters ranging across sites, memories, and performances that have helped to perpetuate "memories" of the Old South, this book reveals how memories endow space with layers of meaning, amounting to a pastiche, i.e., a jumbled assembly that offers congruence without consistency. Through specific sites and objects that have been critical to the meaning-making of the Old South including the regional theatre stage, the coastal plantation, the whip, the monument, and the lynching site, Southern Stages asks readers to see how material, physical realities have constructed affective meaning, including the downtown square and the cemetery. Intertextual and richly layered, this work offers new ways to explore the cultural performances and key spaces of the American South that hold memories of the past and shape the present across the United States"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781685970352 1685970354 |