History, Memory, Performance

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-18 Discursive Practices and Narrative Models: History, Poetry, Philosophy....Pages 19-35 Performing Pasts for Present Purposes: Reenactment as Embodied, Performative History....Pages 36-52 Minding the Gap: The Choreographer as Hyper-Historian in Oral History-Based Performance....Pages 53-67 Un/becoming Nomad: Marc Lescarbot, Movement, and Metamorphosis in Les Muses de la Nouvelle France ....Pages 68-82 Group Biography, Montage, and Modern Women in Hooligans and Building Jerusalem ....Pages 83-97 Alexander Pushkin’s Boris Godunov as Epic Theatre....Pages 98-115 Shakespeare Inside Out: Hamlet as Intertext in the USSR 1934–43....Pages 116-134 Raoul Wallenberg on Stage — or at Stake? Guilt and Shame as Obstacles in the Swedish Commemoration of their Holocaust Hero....Pages 135-152 Staging Auschwitz, Making Witnesses: Performances between History, Memory, and Myth....Pages 153-168 Real Archive, Contested Memory, Fake History: Transnational Representations of Trauma by Lebanese War Generation Artists....Pages 169-186 Performing Collective Trauma: 9/11 and the Reconstruction of American Identity....Pages 187-202 Contemporary Brazilian Theatre: Memories of Violence on the Post-Dictatorship Stage....Pages 203-221 Bent and the Staging of the Queer Holocaust Experience....Pages 222-239 Partners in Conversation: Ethics and the Emergent Practice of Oral History Performance....Pages 240-256 Back Matter....Pages 257-292 "History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts ranging from seventeenth century New France and nineteenth-century Russia to modern Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Lebanon, Russia, and the United States. Contributions from theatre scholars and public historians address issues of shared interest to the disciplines of theatre studies and theatre history, performance studies, history, and public history, coalescing around the concept of memory, both collective and individual. Wide-ranging and theoretically engaged, History, Memory, Performance is especially timely given the historical turn in theatre studies and the performative turn in historical studies."-- Provided by publisher