Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory [Hardcover]

Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory brings memory studies into conversation with a focus on feelings as cultural actors. It charts a series of memory sites that range from canonical museums and memorials, to practices enabled by the virtual terrain of Second Life, popular 'trauma TV' programs and radical theatre practice.List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction. Feeling the Return of Memory 1. Sensing the Holocaust Affect: Memorials in Repeat, Revision and Return 2. Becoming Other-wise: Remembering Intercorporeal Indigeneity Down Under 3. Feeling Remediated: The Emotional Afterlife of Psychic Trauma TV 4. Affecting Indifference: Traumatic a-materiality in Second Life 5. Affect's Spill: Theatrical 'Sensationship' in Cultures of Memory Endnotes Bibliography

Bryoni Trezise is Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a theatre reviewer and dramaturg. Her research in performance and memory has been widely published in journals including Theatre Research International, Memory Studies and Cultural Studies Review. She is co-editor, with Caroline Wake, of Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma (2013).