Performing Statelessness in Europe

• Main Author: Wilmer, S.E (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Theater.; Cultural studies.; Comparative literature.; Europe, Central-History.; Germany-Politics and government.; Theatre and Performance Studies.; Cultural Studies.; Comparative Literature.; History of Germany and Central Europe.; German Politics.

This book examines performative strategies that contest nationalist prejudices in representing the conditions of refugees, the stateless and the dispossessed. In the light of the European Union failing to find a political solution to the current migration crisis, it considers a variety of artistic w...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Recontextualization and Adaptation of Ancient Greek Dramas
• 2. Performative Identification in Fictional Accounts
• 3. Documentary Theatre by and about Refugees
• 4. Unwed Mothers, Asylums and Immersive Theatre
• 5. Creating Dissensus and Cross-identification
• 6. Subversive Identification and Over-identification
• 7. Two Approaches to Nomadism: Fluxus and Théâtre du Soleil
• 8. The Institutional Response of the German Theatre
• Conclusion.