Spectacular Suffering - Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust

"-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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Vivian Patraka

Summary

Considers how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to show larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory.

Product details

• Authors: Vivian Patraka, Vivian M. Patraka, Patraka Vivian
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.1999
• EAN: 9780253212924
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21292-4
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 303 g
• Series: Unnatural Acts; Indiana University Press; Unnatural Acts; Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative; Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet