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Theatricality vs. bare life : performance as a vernacular of resistance
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Jestrovic, Silvija (2014) Theatricality vs. bare life : performance as a vernacular of resistance. In: Rai, Shirin M. and Reinelt, Janelle, (eds.) The Grammar of Politics and Performance. Interventions . Routledge. ISBN 9781138684065
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315879871
Abstract
Following the breakdown of Yugoslavia, in the early 1990s, the besieged city of Sarajevo, pieced together through news reports and images, entered our living rooms and our imaginations. Sarajevo became a synecdoche of the conflict in Bosnia and the iconic site of war and suffering. Theatrical terminology was frequently used in the local media to describe the war as ‘theatre of cruelty’ and ‘theatre of the absurd’, while ‘Waiting for Godot’ became the favourite metaphor for the position of citizens in the besieged city. These performance metaphors have seldom been further explored, hence they did not do much more than contribute to the framing of Sarajevo as a site of passive suffering, mute and frozen in its historical paralysis (Wertenbaker 2001), while mediated through voices of politicians, journalists and Western intellectuals. Nevertheless, there was something intuitively correct in this toying with performance metaphors to describe the various dimensions of the war.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||
Series Name: | Interventions | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISBN: | 9781138684065 | ||||
Book Title: | The Grammar of Politics and Performance | ||||
Editor: | Rai, Shirin M. and Reinelt, Janelle | ||||
Official Date: | 2014 | ||||
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DOI: | 10.4324/9781315879871 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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