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Title
Performing statelessness in Europe / S.E. Wilmer.
ISBN
9783319691732 (electronic book)
3319691732 (electronic book)
9783319691725
3319691724
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
PN1643 .W55 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.4848
Summary
This book examines performative strategies that contest nationalist prejudices in representing the conditions of refugees, the stateless and the dispossessed. In the light of the European Union failing to find a political solution to the current migration crisis, it considers a variety of artistic works that have challenged the deficiencies in governmental and transnational practices, as well as innovative efforts by migrants and their hosts to imagine and build a new future. It discusses a diverse range of performative strategies, moving from a consideration of recent adaptations of Greek tragedy, to performances employing fictive identification, documentary dramas, immersive theatre, over-identification and subversive identification, nomadism and political activism. This study will appeal to those interested in questions of statelessness, migration, and the problematic role of the nation-state.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-232) and index.
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Recontextualization and adaptation of ancient Greek dramas
Performative identification in fictional accounts
Documentary theatre by and about refugees
Unwed mothers, asylums and immersive theatre
Creating dissensus and cross-identification
Subversive identification and over-identification
Two approaches to Nomadism: Fluxus and Théâtre du Soleil
The institutional response of the German theatre.
