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Jestrovic, Silvija (2017) Theatricality versus bare life. In: Performance, Space, Utopia. Studies in International Performance . London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137291677
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291677_7
Abstract
Haris Pašovic´ asserts that the cultural production in Sarajevo ‘was not some unique feature of Sarajevans and that it would have happened in other places since this is a human reaction to dehumanized circumstances. Primarily, it is an anthropological dimension rather than a special trait of our people’ (quoted in Diklic´, Teatar u ratnom Sarajevu, p. 205). He points out common traits in the cultural activity of Sarajevo during the war with the recent history of other cities including the Leningrad siege and the Warsaw ghetto during the Second World War. One might also add the Theresienstadt concentration camp where inmates, most of them highly educated, were given some resources and a certain degree of freedom enabling a form of urban life and activity to flourish under extreme circumstances, until most of the inhabitants got deported to the death-camps. Although the comparison between Nazi concentration camps and the Sarajevo siege is, as Pašovic´ himself admits, limited and problematic for a number of reasons, it is relevant to our attempt to grasp how theatre, performance and overall cultural activity in the besieged city shaped the meaning of being a citizen.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||
| Series Name: | Studies in International Performance | ||||
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||
| Place of Publication: | London | ||||
| ISBN: | 9781137291677 | ||||
| Book Title: | Performance, Space, Utopia | ||||
| Official Date: | 2017 | ||||
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| DOI: | 10.1057/9781137291677_7 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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