History, Memory, Performance

by D. Dean (Editor), Y. Meerzon (Editor), K. Prince (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349483730
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Series:	Studies in International Performance
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	307
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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