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Performance, Subjectivity, Cosmopolitanism

by Yana Meerzon
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9783030414092
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 290
  • Original Price: EUR 89.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 2020
  • Item Weight: 549 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Theater / General

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This book looks at the connection between contemporary theatre practices and cosmopolitanism, a philosophical condition of social behaviour based on our responsibility, respect, and healthy curiosity to the other. Advocating for cosmopolitanism has become a necessity in a world defined by global wars, mass migration, rising xenophobia, and nationalism. Theatre is well-positioned to address these issues. Using empathy, affect, and the telling of personal stories of displacement through embodied encounters between the actor and their audience, performance arts can serve as a training ground for this social behavior. In the centre of this encounter is the new cosmopolitan: a person of divided origins and cultural heritage, someone who speaks several languages and claims different countries as their home or place of belonging. The book examines how different theatre practices in Europe and North America stage this divided subjectivity: both from within, the way we tell stories about ourselves to others, and from without, through the stories that others tell about us. Structured in three sections - encounters in language, encounters in body, and encounters in time/space and history - the book studies artistic strategies of constructing the divided self on and off stage, both as individual experiences, including multilingual solo-performances and one-to-one productions, and placing the individual within a group, within the contemporary chorus play and performance walking.

Professor Yana Meerzon teaches for the Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. Her research interests are in drama and performance theory, and theatre of migration and nationalism. Her book publications with Palgrave include Performing Exile - Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film (2012), Performance, Exile and 'America' (2009), History, Memory, Performance (2015); and Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture (2020).

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