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Postmodern Theater and the Void of Conceptions (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Postmodern Theater and the Void of Conceptions (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Different symbolic traditions have different ways of describing the
shift of awareness toward sacred events. While not conforming to
familiar states of phenomenality, this shift of awareness
corresponds to Turner's liminal phase, Artaud's metaphysical
embodiment, Grotowski's "translumination," Brook's "holy theater,"
and Barba's "transcendent" theater-all of which are linked to the
Advaitan taste of a void of conceptions. This book argues that, by
allowing to come what Derrida calls the unsayable, the theater of
Tom Stoppard, David Henry Hwang, Caryl Churchill, Sam Shepard,
Derek Walcott and Girish Karnad induces characters and spectators
to deconstruct habitual patterns of perception, attenuate the
content of consciousness, and taste the void of conceptions. As the
nine plays discussed in this book suggest, the internal observer
lies behind all cultural constructs as a silent beyond-ness, and
immanently within knowledge as its generative condition of
unknowingness. The unsayable (and the language used to convey it)
that Derrida finds in literature has clear affinities with the
Brahman-Atman of Advaita Vedanta. Derridean deconstruction contains
as a subtext the structure of consciousness that it both veils with
the undecidable trappings of the mind and allows to come as an
unsayable secret through a play of difference. Although Derrida
views theater and the text as mutually deconstructing and claims
that presence or unity "has always already begun to represent
itself," the six playwrights discussed here show that cultural
performance indeed points through its universally ambiguous and
symbolic types toward a trans-verbal, trans-cultural wholeness.
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