1st Edition
A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations Contemporary Suicide Protests by Fire and Their Resonances in Culture
List of Figures Acknowledegments Introduction Part I. Mapping Suicide Protests by Fire Part II. Chronology: Notes and Microstudies on Selected Protest Self-Burnings (1963–2017) Part III. Selected Contemporary Ultimate Protests by Fire and Their Echoes Across Culture 1. A Lotus in a Sea of Fire: On Two Self-Immolations Performed During the War in Vietnam 2. Confronting Defeat: On Two Protest Self-Incinerations Performed After the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia 3. Sparks: On Two Self-Burnings Protesting the Exploitation of Subalterns References Index
Biography
Grzegorz Ziólkowski is a theatre director and Professor of Theatre and Performance at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. He has authored monographs on Peter Brook and Jerzy Grotowski, and co-edited special issues of Polish Theatre Perspectives (Voices from Within), Performance Research (On Performatics), and Contemporary Theatre Review (Polish Theatre After 1989).
