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Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific
conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying
generational, geographical, and identity positions that speak to
the wide array of debates around dramatic canons. Unlike Literature
and other fields in the humanities, Theatre and Performance Studies
has not yet fully grappled with the problems of its canon.
Troubling Traditions stages that conversation in relation to the
canon in the United States. It investigates the possibilities for
multiplying canons, methodologies for challenging canon formation,
and the role of adaptation and practice in rethinking the field's
relation to established texts. The conversations put forward by
this book on the canon interrogate the field's fundamental values,
and ask how to expand the voices, forms, and bodies that constitute
this discipline. This is a vital text for anyone considering the
role, construction, and impact of canons in the US and beyond.
Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific
conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying
generational, geographical, and identity positions that speak to
the wide array of debates around dramatic canons. Unlike Literature
and other fields in the humanities, Theatre and Performance Studies
has not yet fully grappled with the problems of its canon.
Troubling Traditions stages that conversation in relation to the
canon in the United States. It investigates the possibilities for
multiplying canons, methodologies for challenging canon formation,
and the role of adaptation and practice in rethinking the field's
relation to established texts. The conversations put forward by
this book on the canon interrogate the field's fundamental values,
and ask how to expand the voices, forms, and bodies that constitute
this discipline. This is a vital text for anyone considering the
role, construction, and impact of canons in the US and beyond.
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Opera Buffa (Paperback)
Tomaz Salamun; Translated by Matthew Moore
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R311
Discovery Miles 3 110
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Opera Buffa is Tomaz Salamun's last testament. It is a book rooted
in torn landscapes of Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Crafted
from place and power, these poems are fragments of collective
memory. "There are hands, inside. Concordance rises / There are no
foodstuffs. There's no branch." These are poems that examine what
is tender and terrible in the world, ranging from the extrajudicial
civil massacres of partisans during and after the Second World War,
to the prejudicial violence carried out in twenty-first-century
Europe against people forced to migrate from the Middle East, North
Africa, and India. Opera Buffa witnesses anarchical plutocracy,
climate catastrophe, and so much more. "Do you feel the footsteps?/
Do you feel the approach?" This is Opera Buffa.
The collection of poems in The Reckoning of Jeanne
d'Antietammcircles the U.S. Civil War and the failed revolution of
Reconstruction, andmMatthew Moore makes incursions into the
histories and beliefs of the era through architectures of sound,
but also via ancillary histories and histories stacked upon
histories—densely and visibly scrawled—like Anselm Kiefer's
sculptures of lead books, melted and dripping with the texts of
illegible songs. His poems include the figure of Joan of Arc
(Jeanne d'Arc) and her voices; the explosion of the U.S. prison
system and racial legal fictions amid the groundswell of mass
terror in the wake of the U.S. Civil War; the politically poisoned
poetic lineage that moves from Modernism, to New Criticism, and
dead-ends in Southern Agrarianism; and the destructive colonial
histories of the sugar and cotton industries. The Reckoning of
Jeanne d'Antietam stands imbricated with the spell of
language-the-testament; language as hard rhyme and difficult music,
evanescence and violence; and the invocation of names and events at
their meeting places in history.mMoore's poems stand against
sentiment and pity, and against the consolation of that which
cannot be consoled.
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