Vivian Patraka

Spectacular Suffering

Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"-Elin Diamond, Rutgers UniversitySpectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism and the Holocaust considers how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to reflect larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 303g
• ISBN-13: 9780253212924
• ISBN-10: 0253212928
• Artikelnr.: 21945916

Autorenporträt

Vivian M. Patraka is Professor of English and Theatre and Director of the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society at Bowling Green State University. She has written numerous essays about Holocaust theatre, performance, and museums.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Shattered Cartographies: Fascism, the Holocaust, and Tropes about
Representation
2. Reproduction, Appropriation, and Binary Machinery: Fascist Ideology and
Theatricalization
3. Feminism and the Jewish Subject: Holocaust Theatre and the Politics of
Difference and Identity
4. Realism, Gender, and Historical Crisis: Lillian Hellman's Watch on the
Rhine and "Julia"
5. Theatre of Injury and Injustice: Staging the Body in Pain
6. Spectacular Suffering: Performing Presence, Absence, and Witness at U.S.
Holocaust Museums
Notes
References
Index