Memory-theater and postmodern drama /

• Main Author: Malkin, Jeanette R. (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1999.
• Series: Theater--theory/text/performance.
• Subjects: Δράμα > 20ός αιώνας > Ιστορία και κριτική; Μεταμοντερνισμός (Λογοτεχνία)

Memory-Theater and Postmodern Drama argues that the way memory is conceptualized has changed in postmodernism, and that the theatricalization of this new memory discourse has produced some of the most powerful works on the contemporary stage. The playwrights discussed - Samuel Beckett, Heiner Muller...

Table of Contents:

• Intersecting scenes of memory
• Memory, history, postmodern drama: theoretical accounts
• Samuel Beckett's postures of memory
• Heiner Müller's landscapes of memory
• Sam Shepard and the anxiety of erasure
• Suzan-Lori Parks and the empty (w)hole of memory
• Thomas Bernhard's resentment and the politics of memory
• Re-viewing the performance of recall.