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 locationsas diverse as Korea and South Africa to India and Israel. ÍNDICE: - - Contents - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Violence Performed; P.Anderson and J.Menon - Sublime Trauma: The Violence of Ethical Encounter; L.Wade - The Outsider Outside: Performing Immigration in French Street Theatre; S.Haedicke - The Poetics of Displacement and the Politics of Genocide in Three Plays about Rwanda; L.Edmondson - The Case for Postcolonial Liberalism in Hanif Kureishib s My Son the Fanatic; E.Kent - Decorated Death and the Double Whammy: Attempting to Erase the Excluded through Minstrelsy and Lynching; B.Lewis - Sacrificial Practices: Creating the Legacy of Stephen Lawrence; M.K.Dahl - Violence Makes the Body Politic(al): Technologies of Corporeal Literacy in Indian Democracy; M.Dodd - Performance, Transitional Justice, and the Law: South Africab s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; C.Cole - 'To Lie Down to Death for Days': The Turkish Hunger Strike, 2000-2003; P.Anderson - The Arts of Resistance: Arundhati Roy, Denise Uyehara, and the Ethno-global Imagination; K.Katrak - Violent Refo
- ISBN: 978-0-230-53726-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 412
- Fecha Publicación: 05/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés