Entangled Performance Histories
New Approaches to Theater Historiography
- 288 pages
- English
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Entangled Performance Histories
New Approaches to Theater Historiography
About this book
Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography.
"Entangled histories" denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact and exchange between performance cultures affected all involved. Presenting case studies from across the world—spanning Africa, the Arab-speaking world, Asia, the Americas and Europe—the book's contributors systematically expand, exemplify and examine the concept of "entangled histories, " thus introducing various innovative concepts, theories and methodologies for investigating reciprocally consequential processes of interweaving performance cultures from the past. Bringing together examples of entanglements in theater and performance histories from a broad variety of geographical and historical backgrounds, the book's contributions build together a broad basis for a possible and necessary paradigmatic shift in the field of theater and performance historiography.
Ideal for researchers and students of history, theater, performance, drama and dance, this volume opens novel perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of investigating the entangled histories of theater and performance cultures on a global scale.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography
- Part I Methodological Reflections
- Part II Hidden Histories—Forgetting and Remembering
- Part III Entanglements between Drama, Theater and Colonial Historiographies
- Part IV Emergence and Transformation of Genres
- Part V National Theater Histories—Entanglements and Disentanglements
- Coda: The Whirligig of Tech: Theater as Media Archaeology
- Index