History, Memory, Performance [Paperback]

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.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 IndexJohnny Alam, Carleton University, CanadaRachel E. Bennett, University of Illinois, USAJ. Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa, Canadal&