Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust

"This is the first extended study I know of what the author calls a "Holocaust performative," . . . .[The author] asks what a "holocaust performative" might look like and how such a study might illuminate "events of this particular genocide that are unrepresentable and outside the parameters of representation itself" . . . .[Patraka] contributes an important and possibly contentious dimension to Holocaust studies." —James Young

"Theater, always a medium of fragile bodies and intractable ideo...