Violence performed : local roots and global routes of conflict

Society, Customs, Literature

Call Number: 303.6 V8121

ISBN: 9780230537262

Author(s): Anderson, Patrick and Jisha Menon

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Table of Contents

List of Figures

vii

Notes on Contributors

viii

Acknowledgements

xiv

Introduction: Violence Performed Patrick Anderson, and Jisha Menon

Sublime Trauma: The Violence of Ethical Encounter Leslie A. Wade

The "Outsider" Outside: Performing Immigration in French Street Theatre Susan Haedicke

The Poetics of Displacement and the Politics of Genocide in Three Plays about Rwanda Laura Edmondson

The Case for Postcolonial Liberalism in Hanif Kureishi's My Son the Fanatic Eddy Kent

Decorated Death and the Double Whammy: Attempting to Erase the Excluded through Minstrelsy and Lynching Barbara Lewis

101

Sacrificial Practices: Creating the Legacy of Stephen Lawrence Mary Karen Dahl

126

Violence Makes the Body Politic(al): Technologies of Corporeal Literacy in Indian Democracy Maya Dodd

152

Performance, Transitional Justice, and the Law: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Catherine M. Cole

170

"To Lie Down to Death for Days": The Turkish Hunger Strike, 2000-2003 Patrick Anderson

194

Violent Reformations: Image Theatre with Youth in Conflict Regions Sonja Arsham Kuftinec

223

The Arts of Resistance: Arundhati Roy, Denise Uyehara, and the Ethno-Global Imagination Ketu H. Katrak

244

Narrative Representations of Violence and Terrorism: Tragedy and History in Hanoch Levin's Theatre Freddie Rokem

264

Not So Innocent Landscapes: Remembrance, Representation, and the Disappeared Mark Phelan

285

Directing Tourists and Escapees: North Korea's Two Conflicting National Performances Suk-Young Kim

317

Abu Ghraib and the Society of the Spectacle of the Scaffold Jon McKenzie

338

Performance Complexes: Abu Ghraib and the Culture of Neoliberalism Tony Perucci

357

Afterword: "In the Valley of the Shadow of Death": The Photographs of Abu Ghraib Peggy Phelan

372

Index

385

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