Violence performed : local roots and global routes of conflict by Anderson, Patrick, 1974-; Menon, Jisha, 1972- instant download

Violence performed : local roots and global routes of conflict by Anderson, Patrick, 1974-; Menon, Jisha, 1972- instant download

xvii, 391 pages : 22 cm, This collection explores the co-implication of violence and performance in a variety of geopolitical spaces. It looks at political violence through the optic of performance studies to examine the constitutive role of violence while also addressing global concerns about how violence is performed in the modern world, Originally published: 2009, Includes bibliographical references and index, Introduction: violence performed / Patrick Anderson and Jisha Menon -- Sublime trauma: the violence of ethical encounter / Leslie A. Wade -- The \"outsider\" outside: performing immigration in French street theatre / Susan Haedicke -- The poetics of displacement and the politics of genocide in three plays about Rwanda / Laura Edmondson -- The case for postcolonial Liberalism in Hanif Kureishi's My Son the Fanatic / Eddy Kent -- Decorated death and the double whammy: attempting to erase the excluded through minstrelsy and lynching / Barbara Lewis -- Sacrificial practices: creating the legacy of Stephen Lawrence / Mary Karen Dahl -- Violence makes the body politic(al): technologies of corporeal literacy in Indian democracy / Maya Dodd -- Performance, transitional justice, and the law: South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission / Catherine M. Cole -- \"To lie down to death for days\": the Turkish hunger strike, 2000-2003 / Patrick Anderson -- Violent reformations: image theatre with youth in conflict regions / Sonia Arsham Kuftinec -- The arts of resistance: Arundhati Roy, Denise Uyehara, and the ethno-global imagination / Ketu H. Katrak -- Narrative representations of violence and terrorism: tragedy and history in Hanock Levin's theatre / Freddie Rokem -- Not so Innocent Landscapes: remembrance, representation, and the disappeared / Mark Phelan -- Directing tourists and escapes: North Korea's two conflicting national performances / Suk-Young Kim -- Abu Ghraib and the society of the spectacle of the scaffold / Jon McKenzie -- Performance complexes:…