Holocaust Theater - Dramatizing Survivor Trauma and Its Effects on the Second Generation

Informationen zum Autor Gene A. Plunka is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Memphis. Klappentext Facts about the Holocaust are one way of learning about its devastating impact, but presenting personal manifestations of trauma can be more effective than citing statistics. Holocaust Theater addresses a selection of contemporary plays about the Holocaust, examining how collective and individual trauma is represented in dramatic texts, and considering the ways in which spectators might be swayed viscerally, intellectually, and emotionally by witnessing such representations onstage. Drawing on interviews with a number of the playwrights alongside psychoanalytic studies of survivor trauma, this volume seeks to foster understanding of the traumatic effects of the Holocaust on subsequent generations. Holocaust Theater offers a vital account of theater's capacity to represent the effects of Holocaust trauma. Zusammenfassung The first book to give sustained critical attention to contemporary plays about the Holocaust, Holocaust Theater offers a vital account of theater’s capacity to represent the effects of Holocaust trauma. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: The Spectre of the Holocaust Among Survivors 3: Staging Survivor Guilt 4: Staging Childhood Survivor Trauma 5: Symptoms of Psychological Problems Among Children of Survivors 6: Aggressive Behavior Among Offspring of Holocaust Survivors Coda Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Gene A. Plunka, Gene A. (University of Memphis Plunka
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781138685062
• ISBN: 978-1-138-68506-2
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Theatre Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1940 to c 1949, History and Archaeology