{"product_id":"staging-difficult-pasts-9781032326030","title":"Staging Difficult Pasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, this volume considers distinctions and interactions between memory and history specifically through the lenses of theatre and performance studies, visual culture, and museum and curator studies. This book is underpinned by three areas of research enquiry: How are contemporary theatre makers and museum curators staging historical narratives of difficult pasts? How might comparisons between theatre and museum practices offer new insights into the role objects play in generating and representing difficult pasts? What points of overlap, comparison, and contrast among these constructions of history and memory of authoritarianism, slavery, colonialism, genocide, armed conflict, fascism, and co\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Staging the Story of a People: The Politics of Co-Performance at the National Museum of African American History and Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Theatricality \u0026amp; Spectacle: The Museum as Object\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBryce Lease\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Curating the Experiential: The Imperial War Museum’s Revised Holocaust Galleries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Bulgin in conversation with Bryce Lease\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. The Meaning of Working Through the Past: Of Awkward Objects and Collateral Memories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichal Kobialka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. On Crying Perpetrators and Subversive Laughter: Trans-Affiliative Encounters inside ESMA Memory Museum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCecilia Sosa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Refracting Difficult Pasts: Temporal Answers and the In-Between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRabih Mroué in conversation with Michal Kobialka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Listening to the museum, hearing the mine: Mapa Teatro’s live réplica to modernity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiulia Palladini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Showcasing Anti-colonial Nationalist Struggles: Museums and Theatre in Contestation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBishnupriya Dutt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. ‘It’s art, all it can do is bear witness’: Remembering Histories of Enslavement in Black British Women’s Plays and at the International Slavery Museum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLynette Goddard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights: Long Life to the Theatre!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilena Grass Kleiner and Mariana Hausdorf Andrade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. On the Making of the Oratorio for the Disappeared\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eErika Diettes in conversation with Vikki Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Enforced Disappearance and Silenced Histories: Pedro Almodóvar’s \u003ci\u003eMadres paralelas\u003c\/i\u003e\/\u003ci\u003eParallel Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e (2021)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaria M. Delgado\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. What Remains: Staging Memory of Enslavement in the Western Cape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNadia Davids and Jay Pather in conversation with Bryce Lease\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. Marketing a Massacre: When Outdoor Dramas Become Dark Tourism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatrina Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. Epilogue - 10 Strategies for Exhibiting Absence \u0026amp; Loss: Objects, Narratives and Trauma on Display\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoanne Rosenthal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018977182039,"sku":"9781032326030","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032326030.jpg?v=1750778890","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/staging-difficult-pasts-9781032326030","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}