Theatre and War
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Theatre and War

Theatrical Responses since 1991

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Theatre and War

Theatrical Responses since 1991

About this book

How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in direct response to the 1991 war in Iraq as well as to the 9/11 attacks and the retaliatory actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Spectator of Calamities
  9. 1 Five Political Crises: The New Semiotic Environment
  10. 2 Turning History into Happening: The First Iraq War
  11. 3 The Persians
  12. 4 From the Ruins of 9/11: Grief and Terror
  13. 5 Facing Terror
  14. 6 War Documents
  15. 7 Bodies Count: In/Visible Scandal at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib
  16. 8 Afghanistan and “the Spectacle of Our Suffering”
  17. Notes
  18. Works Cited
  19. Index