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The Methuen Drama Anthology of Testimonial Plays
This diverse anthology features eight contemporary plays founded in testimonies from across the world. Showcasing challenging and provocative works of theatre, the collection also provides a clear insight into the workings of the genre through author interviews, introductions from the companies and performance images which illustrate the process of creating each piece. Bystander 9/11 by Meron Langsner is an impressionistic but wholly authentic response to the catastrophe as it unfolded and in the days following. Big Head by Denise Uyehara is an interrogation of current perceptions of "the enemy now" as seen through the lens of Japanese American internment during World War II. Urban Theatre P...
Profession 2014
This issue of Profession opens with pieces on the Common Core State Standards by Gerald Graff, Diane Ravitch, and Catharine R. Stimpson. It also features a series of essays that stem from 2013â€"14 MLA President Marianne Hirsch’s Presidential Forum and sessions related to her theme, Vulnerable Times. Introduced by Hirsch are pieces by the forum participants Ariella Azoulay, Judith Butler, David L. Eng, Rob Nixon, and Diana Taylor, who reexamine the notion of vulnerability to assert the possibility for forms of resistance that can stem from it. The cluster “Trauma, Memory, Vulnerability,†introduced by Susan Rubin Suleiman, features essays by María José Contreras Lorenzini, Andre...
Women Mobilizing Memory
Women Mobilizing Memory, a transnational exploration of the intersection of feminism, history, and memory, shows how the recollection of violent histories can generate possibilities for progressive futures. Questioning the politics of memory-making in relation to experiences of vulnerability and violence, this wide-ranging collection asks: How can memories of violence and its afterlives be mobilized for change? What strategies can disrupt and counter public forgetting? What role do the arts play in addressing the erasure of past violence from current memory and in creating new visions for future generations? Women Mobilizing Memory emerges from a multiyear feminist collaboration bringing tog...
Performance Constellations
Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as people struggle to be heard and effect long-term social justice. Its case studies explore collective political action in Latin America, including the Zapatistas in the mid-’90s, protests during the 2001 Argentine economic crisis, the 2011 Chilean student movement, the 2014–2015 mobilizations for the disappeared Ayotzinapa students, and the 2018 transnational reproductive rights movement. The book analyzes uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, a...
Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times
This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender, sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of discrimination, and the social consequences of political economies based on free market ideology. The investigations of affect theory follow the circulation of intensities – of political impingements on bodies, subjective and symbolic violence, and the shock of dispossession – within and beyond individuals to the social and political sphere. Affect is a helpful matrix for discussing the volatile interactivity between performer and spectator, whether live or technologically mediated. Contending that there is no activism without affect, the collection brings back to the table the activist and hopeful potential of feminism.
Documentary Vanguards in Modern Theatre
Practitioners and critics alike often attribute great authenticity to documentary theatre, casting it as a salutary alternative not only to corporate news outlets and official histories but also to the supposed "self-indulgence" and "elitism" of avant-garde theatre. Documentary Vanguards in Modern Theatre, by contrast, argues for treating documentarians as vanguardists who (for good or ill) push, remap, or transgress the margins of historical and political visibility, often taking issue with professional discourses that claim a monopoly on authoritative representations of the real. This is the first book to situate documentary theatre’s development within the larger story of theatrical experimentalism, collage art, collective ritual, and other avant-garde dramaturgical and performance practices of the late 19th and 20th Centuries.
Visual Politics in the Global South
The role of the visual in politics is gaining momentum in scholarly work concerned with the current social media landscape. It is widely acknowledged that the production, dissemination and consumption of visual products in the Global South is powerfully shaped by geo-politics and a power dynamics in which the Global North dominates the South (the cultural imperialism argument). However, scant attention has been paid to theoretical, methodological, and empirically grounded approaches to visual politics produced by scholars working in the Global South. Little is known about the ways in which scholarship in the Global South might challenge and resist western approaches to the study of the visua...
Cadáver Exquisito
María José Contreras, Pablo Cisternas y Roxana Gómez presentan en este libro los procesos de investigación performativa, creación y montaje de las obras Ópera -Compañía Antimétodo-, Croma -Compañía Tercer Abstracto- y Telepatía -Compañía Persona-. Construido como un cadáver exquisito, la obra recopila rastros y huellas de estos tres procesos de creación escénica contemporáneos orientados a la investigación para buscar conexiones y quiebres con otras prácticas en el medio teatral chileno actual.
Il senso delle soggettività
In un convegno dedicato alle Soggettività un laboratorio sul silenzio non poteva mancare: nel silenzio verso l’esterno si sviluppa infatti la percezione di sé e il dialogo con se stessi, condizioni per il costituirsi di quello spazio intimo denominato nella nostra cultura “interiorità”. Roland Barthes racconta che gli accadde quando da giovane, affetto da tubercolosi, trascorse dei periodi in sanatorio, dove per l’appunto era prescritta la cura del silenzio: passare alcune ore della giornata, in solitudine, a riposo o leggendo, senza parlare. Cura probabilmente ispirata alle regole monastiche, che ritroviamo in forma mitigata anche nelle prime classi di scuola (almeno, nei ricordi di chi scrive). Il silenzio, dunque, come forma più o meno radicale di ritiro simbolico dal mondo, dalla sua chiacchiera e dal suo esserci, avrebbe detto Heidegger: prove tecniche di meditazione sull’autenticità dell’essere (Isabella Pezzini)
Activismos tecnopolíticos
Por un lado Donald Trump haciendo su típico baile en plena campaña electoral mientras suena una famosa canción de Village People; por el otro, el colectivo chileno Lastesis llevando adelante su intervención estético-política Un violador en tu camino. Los dos casos reúnen los elementos característicos de una performance, ¿pero acaso son lo mismo? En Activismos tecnopolíticos, Marcela Fuentes sostiene que las performances de lxs líderes políticxs apuntan sobre todo a la creación de públicos y seguidorxs, mientras que las performances contrahegémonicas no buscan el espectáculo sino la justicia social. A lo largo del libro, la autora recorre diferentes casos de acción política ...
