{"product_id":"the-necropolitical-theater-9780810141858","title":"The Necropolitical Theater","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores how theatrical production in Spain since the early 1990s has reflected national anxieties about immigration and race. Jeffrey Coleman argues that Spain has developed a \"\"necropolitical theater\"\" that casts the non-European immigrant as fictionalized enemy - one whose nonwhiteness is incompatible with Spanish national identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Necropolitical Theater\u003c\/i\u003e offers an insightful and accessible critique of contemporary Spanish plays dealing with migration to Spain in the last three decades. This is the first book devoted to the complex intersection of theater and migration. With it Coleman makes a significant contribution to discussions of migration, race and national identity, and the role theater plays in either humanizing the immigrant's experience and generating audiences' awareness and affect, or reifying nativist anxieties.\" - Isolina Ballesteros, author of \u003ci\u003eImmigration Cinema in the New Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In his perceptive study, Coleman focuses on the presentation of Latin-American, Moroccan, and sub-Saharan immigrants as protagonists or secondary characters in contemporary plays from Spain. He shows how their dramatic trajectory reflects historical attitudes toward each group. His findings transcend departmental boundaries and should be of interest to all concerned with immigration and the populist response in Europe today.\" - Marion Peter Holt, author \u003ci\u003eThe Contemporary Spanish Theater (1949-1972)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Necropolitical Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e is illuminating and groundbreaking in its examination of the paradoxes and problems in the representation of the otherness of immigrants from Africa and Latin America to Spain in the world of theater.\" - Jessica Folkart, author of \u003ci\u003eLiminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Delineating a \"theater of whiteness\" in the highly racialized culture of contemporary Spain, \u003ci\u003eNecropolitical Theater\u003c\/i\u003e carefully traces literary engagements with a fictionalized threat from nonwhite immigrants. Coleman's sensitive study lays bare a tragic paradox whereby plays intended to humanize such immigrants, overlooking the vibrant transcultural exchanges that migration might bring, focus instead on their physical or social death. Essential reading for scholars engaged with post-Francoist, contemporary Spanish culture and European immigration.\" - Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eBorder Interrogations: Crossing Spanish Frontiers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Necropolitical Theatre \u003c\/i\u003eis an excellent book about the relationship between social exclusion, marginalization, and its representation in theatre. Insightful analysis of plays about immigrants are combined with reflections on their reception and how to diversify both theatre and audiences. An invitation to imagine different scenarios for immigrants in contemporary Spain, and a must read for all those interested in discussions of race and the perception and hierarchization of different immigrant groups.\" - Daniela Flesler, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Moor: Spanish Responses to Contemporary Moroccan Immigration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNote on Translations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Abbreviations  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: The Formation of the Necropolitical Theater \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One - Are You Being Served?: Latin American Female Migrants and Neocolonial Servitude  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two - The Second Reconquista: Maurophobia and the Impossibility of North African Migrants in Spain Chapter Three - En Route to Death: Spanish Necropolitical Theater and the Precarity of Black Immigration Conclusion: The Necropolitical Theater of Whiteness  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577531601239,"sku":"9780810141858","price":31.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810141858.jpg?v=1746095721","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-necropolitical-theater-9780810141858","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}