Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory

Des O'Rawe (Editor), Mark Phelan (Editor)

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Abstract

This book examines how contemporary theatre, performance, film and the visual arts respond to the post-conflict condition. The contents of the volume focus on a range of post-conflict cities, encouraging interdisciplinary discussion on the role of the arts and its relation to issues of testimony, witnessing, forgetting, representation, healing, reconciliation, agency, and metaphor. Contributors include: Thomas Elsaesser, Jane Taylor, Marvin Carlson, Rob Stone, Laurel Borisenko, Katarzyna Puzon, Miriam Paeslack, Emma Grey, Paula Blair, Zoran Poposki, Marija Todorova, Elena Carduro, and Paul Devlin.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Number of pages334
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-137-43955-0
ISBN (Print)9781137439543
Publication statusPublished - 01 Sept 2016

Publication series

NameContemporary Performance InterActions

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