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Migraaaaanten!
"Sie kommen aus Pakistan, Afghanistan, Al Jaza'ir, Somalia, Hagere Ertra, Irak, Libiyah, Al Maghrib, Haiti und vielen anderen Ländern, deren Traum einer Zukunft geplatzt scheint. Und es sind Millionen. Wieviele Millionen? Wir wissen es nicht. Sie werden 'Migranten' genannt und sie haben nur eine Obsession: Europa zu erreichen. Und Europa wird seit Jahren von Panik geplagt. Die verantwortlichen Politiker und die öffentliche Meinung haben verstanden, dass es tatsächlich um die 80 Millionen Menschen gibt, die in Kriegsgebieten leben und internationalen Schutzes bedürfen, sei es beispielsweise durch politisches Asyl in Europa. Die Grenzen jedoch werden nach und nach geschlossen, Stacheldrahtzäune werden aufgestellt. Europa wird sich nicht einig in der Flüchtlingsfrage, im Gegenteil, es erscheint der Versuchung zu erliegen, seine Werte aufzugeben. Eine menschliche Tragödie spielt sich vor unseren Augen ab. Das Theaterstück hat daher mindestens ein Hauptziel: Gleichgültigkeit zu zerstören"--Publisher website.
Mr. K Released
Mirroring Romania's drastic transition from totalitarianism to Western-style freedom in the late 1980s, Mr. K Released captures the disturbingly surreal feeling that many newly liberated prisoners face when they leave captivity. Employing his trademark playful absurdity, Mat i Visniec introduces us to Mr. K, a Kafkaesque figure who has been imprisoned for years for an undisclosed crime in a penitentiary with mysterious tunnels. One day, Mr. K finds himself unexpectedly released. Unable to comprehend his sudden liberation, he becomes traumatized by the realities of freedom--more so than the familiar trauma of captivity or imprisonment. In the hope of obtaining some clarification, Mr. K keeps waiting for an appointment with the prison governor, however, their meeting is constantly being delayed. During this endless process of waiting, Mr. K gets caught up in a clinical exploration of his physical surroundings. He does not have the courage or indeed inclination to leave, but can move unrestricted within the prison compound, charting endless series of absurd circles in which readers might paradoxically recognize themselves.
Literature of Commitment in Matei Visniec's Works
The study Literature of Commitment in Matei Vişniec's Works by Mihaela Paula Olimpia Ghiţ is the first book written in Romania about Matei Vişniec's writings. Here's what the author says about this important study: Coming into prominence with an amazingly original work, Matei Vişniec is for sure one of the subtlest contemporary creators of satire, who, starting his literary activity in the '80s, as many others, wants to attract the reader not only with his poetry and prose, but especially with his theatre. The latter becomes for the author an ongoing, unprecedented experiment, which skips any absolute classification. He was considered by literary criticism, poor up to now, a representati...
Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion
Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion reflects the diversity of dramatic writing exploring the past and present of Romania, and takes stock thirty years after the collapse of communism. In addition to plays originally written in Romanian, the collection includes work by German, Hungarian and Roma authors born and/or working in Romania, and brings together plays written during the communist period and its aftermath. The plays included in the collection, edited and translated by Jozefina Komporaly and fully published for the first time in English, demonstrate broad variety in terms of form and content – ranging from family dramas to allegories, and absurdist experiments to modular t...
How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients and Other Plays
Dramatist, poet, novelist and journalist Matei Visniec, born in Romania and living in France since seeking political asylum in 1987, has been one of the most trenchant voices of Europe, condemning the atrocities of totalitarianism as well as excesses of consumer culture. This first anthology of his dramatic work made available in English collects seven of his plays. "Decomposed Theater or The Human Trashcan "is a modular text that explores forms of brainwashing and alienation both in totalitarian and consumerist societies. "The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War "deals with the atrocities of war that addresses witnessing trauma, the complicated relationship between East and ...
Dinner with Marx
The book published in Bucharest in 2011 under the title "La mas? cu Marx" marks Matei Vi?niec's return to poetry? "Dinner with Marx" is composed of small poetic pieces that resemble skits. Funny, painful, absurd, fantastic, satirical, often theatrical, always singular, each reminds us that the Romanian writer, exiled in France under Ceau?escu, is also a playwright? The author takes us into a universe constantly threatened by loss of meaning and negation of the individual?A bouquet of poems? No, a gathering of stinging nettles
Francophone Literature as World Literature
Francophone Literature as World Literature examines French-language works from a range of global traditions and shows how these literary practices draw individuals, communities, and their cultures and idioms into a planetary web of tension and cross-fertilization. The Francophone corpus under scrutiny here comes about in the evolving, markedly relational context provided by these processes and their developments during and after the French empire. The 15 chapters of this collection delve into key aspects, moments, and sites of the literature flourishing throughout the francosphere after World War II and especially since the 1980s, from the French Hexagon to the Caribbean and India, and from Québec to the Maghreb and Romania. Understood and practiced as World Literature, Francophone literature claims--with particular force in the wake of the littérature-monde debate--its place in a more democratic world republic of letters, where writers, critics, publishers, and audiences are no longer beholden to traditional centers of cultural authority.
Theater of War and Exile
In what ways does political trauma influence the art arising from it? Is there an aesthetic of war and exile in theatrical works that emerge from such experiences? Are there cultural markers defining such works from areas like Eastern Europe and Israel? This book considers these questions in an examination of plays, performances and theater artists that speak from a place of political violence and displacement. The author's critical inquiry covers a variety of theatrical experimentations, including Brechtian distancing, black humor, pastiche, surreal and hyper-real imagery, reversed chronologies and disrupted narratives. Drawing on postmodern theories and performance studies as well as interviews and personal statements from the artists discussed, this study explores the transformative power of the theater arts and their function as catalysts for social change, healing and remembrance.
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. With essays on literature, film, drama, graphic novels, and more, the book addresses migration and media, hostile environments, migration and language, migration and literary experiment, migration as palimpsest, and figurations of the migrant. Each section is introduced by one of the handbook’s contributing editors and interviews with writers and film directors are integrated throughout the volume. The essays collected in the volume move beyond the discourse of the “refugee crisis” to trace the historical roots of the current migration situation through colonialism and decolonization.
