Violence Performed Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict [Hardcover]

This topical collection explores the relationship between violence and performance. The authors offer fresh theoretical perspectives and examine media as diverse as street theatre, performance art, photography and cinema in locations as diverse as Korea and South Africa to India and Israel.ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Violence Performed; P.Anderson and J.MenonSublime Trauma: The Violence of Ethical Encounter; L.WadeThe Outsider Outside: Performing Immigration in French Street Theatre; S.HaedickeThe Poetics of Displacement and the Politics of Genocide in Three Plays about Rwanda; L.EdmondsonThe Case for Postcolonial Liberalism in Hanif Kureishi's My Son the Fanatic ; E.KentDecorated Death and the Double Whammy: Attempting to Erase the Excluded through Minstrelsy and Lynching; B.LewisSacrificial Practices: Creating the Legacy of Stephen Lawrence; M.K.DahlViolence Makes the Body Politic(al): Technologies of Corporeal Literacy in Indian Democracy; M.DoddPerformance, Transitional Justice, and the Law: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission; C.Cole'To Lie Down to Death for Days': The Turkish Hunger Strike, 2000-2003; P.AndersonThe Arts of Resistance: Arundhati Roy, Denise Uyehara, and the Ethno-global Imagination; K.KatrakViolent Reformations: Image Theatre with Youth in Conflict Regions; S.A.KuftinecNarrative Representations of Violence and Terrorism: Tragedy and History in Hanoch Levin's Theatre; F.RokemNot So Innocent Landscapes: Remembrance, Representation, and the Disappeared; M.PhelanDirecting Tourists and Escapees: North Korea's Two Conflicting National Performances; S-Y.KimAbu Ghraib and the Society of the Spectacle of the Scaffold; J.McKenziePerformance Complexes: Abu Ghraib and the Culture of Neoliberalism; T.PerucciAfterword: 'In the Valley of the Shadow of Death': The Photographs of Abu Ghraib; P.PhelanIndex

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