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History, Memory, Performance

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Editors:
  1. David Dean

    1. Department of History, Carleton University, Canada

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  2. Yana Meerzon

    1. Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Canada

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  3. Kathryn Prince

    1. Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Canada

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Part of the book series: Studies in International Performance (STUDINPERF)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • David Dean, Yana Meerzon, Kathryn Prince
    Pages 1-18

  3. Discursive Practices and Narrative Models: History, Poetry, Philosophy

    • Freddie Rokem
    Pages 19-35

  4. Performing Pasts for Present Purposes: Reenactment as Embodied, Performative History

    • Katherine Johnson
    Pages 36-52

  5. Minding the Gap: The Choreographer as Hyper-Historian in Oral History-Based Performance

    • Jeff Friedman
    Pages 53-67

  6. Un/becoming Nomad: Marc Lescarbot, Movement, and Metamorphosis in Les Muses de la Nouvelle France

    • V K Preston
    Pages 68-82

  7. Group Biography, Montage, and Modern Women in Hooligans and Building Jerusalem

    • Nancy Copeland
    Pages 83-97

  8. Alexander Pushkin’s Boris Godunov as Epic Theatre

    • J. Douglas Clayton
    Pages 98-115

  9. Shakespeare Inside Out: Hamlet as Intertext in the USSR 1934–43

    • Irena R. Makaryk
    Pages 116-134

  10. Raoul Wallenberg on Stage — or at Stake? Guilt and Shame as Obstacles in the Swedish Commemoration of their Holocaust Hero

    • Tanja Schult
    Pages 135-152

  11. Staging Auschwitz, Making Witnesses: Performances between History, Memory, and Myth

    • Rachel E. Bennett
    Pages 153-168

  12. Real Archive, Contested Memory, Fake History: Transnational Representations of Trauma by Lebanese War Generation Artists

    • Johnny Alam
    Pages 169-186

  13. Performing Collective Trauma: 9/11 and the Reconstruction of American Identity

    • Josy Miller
    Pages 187-202

  14. Contemporary Brazilian Theatre: Memories of Violence on the Post-Dictatorship Stage

    • Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento
    Pages 203-221

  15. Bent and the Staging of the Queer Holocaust Experience

    • Samantha Mitschke
    Pages 222-239

  16. Partners in Conversation: Ethics and the Emergent Practice of Oral History Performance

    • Edward Little, Steven High
    Pages 240-256

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 257-292
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About this book

History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts. At its core are contributions from theatre scholars and public historians discussing how historical meaning is shaped through performance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Carleton University, Canada

    David Dean

  • Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Canada

    Yana Meerzon, Kathryn Prince

About the editors

Johnny Alam, Carleton University, Canada Rachel E. Bennett, University of Illinois, USA J. Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa, Canada Nancy Copeland, University of Toronto, Canada Jeff Friedman, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, USA Steven High, Concordia University, Canada Katherine Johnson, University of Sydney, Australia Edward (Ted) Little, Concordia University, Canada Irena (Irene) R. Makaryk, University of Ottawa, Canada Josy Miller, University of California, Davis, USA Claudia Tatinge Nascimento, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany Kathryn Prince, University of Ottawa, Canada Samantha Mitschke, University of Birmingham, UK VK Preston, McGill University, Canada Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University, Israel Tanja Schult, Hugo Valentin Centre at Uppsala, Sweden

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