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Theatre on Terror - Subject Positions in British Drama (Hardcover)
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Theatre on Terror - Subject Positions in British Drama (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Drama in English Studies
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In a moment of intense uncertainty surrounding the means, ends, and
limits of (countering) terrorism, this study approaches the recent
theatres of war through theatrical stagings of terror. Theatre on
Terror: Subject Positions in British Drama charts the terrain of
contemporary subjectivities both 'at home' and 'on the front line'.
Beyond examining the construction and contestation of subject
positions in domestic and (sub)urban settings, the book follows
border-crossing figures to the shifting battlefields in Iraq and
Afghanistan. What emerges through the analysis of twenty-one plays
is not a dichotomy but a dialectics of 'home' and 'front', where
fluid, uncontainable subjects are constantly pushing the contours
of conflict. Revising the critical consensus that post-9/11 drama
primarily engages with 'the real', Ariane de Waal argues that these
plays navigate the complexities of the discourse - rather than the
historical or social realities - of war and terrorism. British
'theatre on terror' negotiates, inflects, and participates in the
discursive circulation of stories, idioms, controversies,
testimonies, and pieces of (mis)information in the face of global
insecurities.
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