Description
Book SynopsisEntangled 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 worldspanning Africa, the Arab-speaking world, Asia, the Americas and Europethe 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 geograph
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography
PART I: Methodological Reflections
1 Interweaving Stories, Altering Discourses
2 Writing Entangled Theater/Performance Histories in the Arab World
PART II: Hidden Histories—Forgetting and Remembering
3 William Kentridge’s The Head & The Load: Theatrical Collage and the Color of Memory
4 Hijikata Tatsumi at the Osaka World Exposition’s Pepsi Pavilion, 1970: Multiple Historiographies of a Lost Performance
PART III: Entanglements between Drama, Theater and Colonial Historiographies
5 Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore
6 The Thorny Entanglements of Theater and Colonial Historiography in the Netherlands: Anti-colonial Critique and Imperial Nostalgia in J. Slauerhoff ’s Play Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1931)
PART IV: Emergence and Transformation of Genres
7 Reversibility as Historiographical Method: Japanese Theater and Its Doubles
8 Plumbing the Past to Project into the Future: The Entangled Trajectories of Flamenco’s Twenty-First-Century Avant-Garde
PART V: National Theater Histories—Entanglements and Disentanglements
9 The Interwoven Performance Culture of Algeria
10 Writing History as Disentanglement: Toward a Historiography of Modern Greek Theater
Coda: The Whirligig of Tech: Theater as Media Archaeology
Index
