Performing European Memories [electronic resource] : Trauma, Ethics, Politics /
Gluhovic, Milija.author.
Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller and Artur Zmijewski.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: theorising Europe and recollection -- History, memory, and trauma in Heiner Müller's theatre -- Contested pasts and the ethics of remembrance in Tadeusz Kantor's "theatre of death" -- Postmemory, vulnerability, affect -- Conclusion: European memories and the margins of Europe: Sarajevo theatre tragedy and Three prayers for one wish.
Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller and Artur Zmijewski.
Performing arts.
Theater—History.
Theater.
Europe—History.
European literature.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
European History.
European Literature.