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In this exceptional investigation, Rustom Bharucha offers a compelling, non-Eurocentric perspective on the dangerous liaisons between terror and performance. Questioning the equation of 'terror' with 'terrorism,' this bold text offers alternative epistemologies and narratives of terror. It draws on a vast spectrum of human cruelties - relating to war, genocide, apartheid, communal and ethnic violence - in India, the Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa and Palestine, among other parts of the global South.
Sommario
Preface i-vii
Introduction: Mapping Terror in the War of Words 1-39
Provocation
Impulse
Doublespeak of ‘terrorism’
Risks of misunderstanding
Ambivalences of terror
Holy Terror
Terror through a literary lens
Visual overkill
Performance/performativity/theatre
Dangerous liaisons: terror and performance
1. Genet in Manila: ‘September 11’ in Retrospect 40-88
I
Pre-Terror
Deadly Innocence
Intentionality
Politics of the ‘real’
Event/betrayal: rethinking the political
‘September 11’: first exposure
II
Discourse
Genres of terror
- tragedy
- Theatre of Cruelty
The terror of repetition
Deconstructing terror
- trauma
- autoimmunity
Controversies
- Stockhausen’s blunder
- The politics of empathy
III
Exit the Theatre
2. ‘Muslims’ in a Time of Terror: Deceptions,
Demonization, and Uncertainties of Evidence 89-130
I
Passing as a Muslim
Constructing ‘Muslims’
Phenomenology of passing
Queering the Muslim terrorist: beards and penises
The beautiful terrorist
The Sikh as Muslim
II
Recapitulation
The Indian Muslim as Other
Genocide in Godhra
‘Dead certainty’: the limits of performativity
Outing the self
3. Countering Terror? The Search for Justice through
Truth and Reconciliation 131-186
I
Mapping the Terrain
Multiple locations, different stakes
The right to intervene
II
Rwanda
The terror of statistics
Realizing the unthinkable: the provocation of
gacacaGacaca as performance: a theoretical trap?
Dramaturgy of
gacacaThe evidence of experience
Performing Rwandanicity
III
South Africa
The ‘impossible machine’
The theatricality of hearings
Amnesty in performance
Between performance and justice: an ethical impasse
The ‘truth’ of story-telling
IV
Key Motifs of Truth and Reconciliation
Performing silence
Forgiveness, or ‘living with evil’?
Time and reconciliation
Coda
4. Performing Non-Violence in the Age of Terror 187-231
Enter Gandhi
Gandhi as Truth Commission
Performing the Truth Commission
The performativity of salt
Non-violence: sacrifice or suicide?
Suicide bombing: acts of performance
‘Just War’: ambivalences and duplicities
Training to die?: the viability of non-violence
The violence of non-violence
Lip-sewing and blood graffiti: the weapons of the weak
Towards justice?
Postscript 232-239
Notes 240-285
Bibliography 286-300
Index
Info autore
Rustom Bharucha is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. He is a writer, director, dramaturg and cultural critic, as well as the author of several books, including Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture (Routledge, 1993).
