History, Memory, 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