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Trauma-Tragedy - Symptoms of Contemporary Performance (Hardcover)
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Trauma-Tragedy - Symptoms of Contemporary Performance (Hardcover)
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Trauma-tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can
represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a
focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they
could help us to understand trauma on personal and social levels.
In a world increasingly preoccupied with and exposed to traumas,
this volume considers what performance offers as a means of
commentary that other cultural products do not. The book's clear
and coherent navigation of complex relation between performance and
trauma and its analysis of key practitioners and performances (from
Sarah Kane to Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Harold Pinter to Forced
Entertainment, and Phillip Pullman to Franco B) make it accessible
and useful to students of performance and trauma studies, yet
rigorous and incisive for scholars and specialists. Duggan explores
ideas around the phenomenological and socio-political efficacy and
impact of performance in relation to trauma. Ultimately, the book
advances a new performance theory or mode, 'trauma-tragedy', that
suggests much contemporary performance can generate the sensation
of being present in trauma through its structural embodiment in
performance, or 'presence-in-trauma effects'. -- .
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