Staging difficult pasts : Transnational memory, theatres, and museums

Staging difficult pasts Transnational memory, theatres, and museums

This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences. Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, thi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delgado, Maria M. (-)
Other Authors: Delgado, Maria M., editor (editor), Kobialka, Michal, editor, Lease, Bryce, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 2023.
Subjects:
Historical museums > Techniques > Cross-cultural studies.
Museum theater > Cross-cultural studies.
Museum exhibits > Cross-cultural studies.
Historical drama > Cross-cultural studies.
Historical reenactments > Cross-cultural studies.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009786588106719
Table of Contents:
  • Staging the story of a people : the politics of co-performance at the National Museum of African American History and Culture / Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley
  • Theatricality & spectacle : the museum as object / Bryce Lease
  • Curating the experiential : the Imperial War Museum's revised Holocaust galleries / James Bulgin in conversation with Bryce Lease
  • The meaning of working through the past : of awkward objects and collateral memories / Michal Kobialka
  • On crying perpetrators and subversive laughter : trans-affiliative encounters inside ESMA Memory Museum / Cecilia Sosa
  • Refracting difficult pasts : temporal answers and the in-between / Rabih Mroué in conversation with Michal Kobialka
  • Listening to the museum, hearing the mine : Mapa Teatro's live réplica to modernity / Giulia Palladini
  • Showcasing anti-colonial nationalist struggles : museums and theatre in contestation / Bishnupriya Dutt
  • 'It's art, all it can do is bear witness' : remembering histories of enslavement in Black British women's plays and at the International Slavery Museum / Lynette Goddard
  • Chile's Museum of Memory and Human Rights : long life to the theatre! / Milena Grass Kleiner and Mariana Hausdorf Andrade
  • On the making of the Oratorio for the Disappeared / Erika Diettes in conversation with Vikki Bell
  • Enforced disappearance and silenced histories : Pedro Almodóvar's Madres paralelas/Parallel Mothers (2021) / Maria M. Delgado
  • What remains : staging memory of enslavement in the Western Cape / Nadia Davids and Jay Pather in conversation with Bryce Lease
  • Marketing a massacre : when outdoor dramas become dark tourism / Katrina Phillips
  • Epilogue. 10 Strategies for exhibiting absence & loss : objects, narratives and trauma on display / Joanne Rosenthal.

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