1st Edition
Commemorative Theatricality Embodied Dynamics of Memory and Memorial
By Bryce Lease
Copyright 2027
212 Pages
3 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
3 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Commemorative Theatricality: Embodied Dynamics of Memory and Memorial rethinks remembrance as an embodied, relational, and contested practice. Moving across museums, memorials, statue parks, urban spaces, and performance works in Central and Eastern Europe, the book examines how memory is not simply preserved or displayed but enacted through bodies, sites, objects, affects, and movement.... Read more
1. Shared Histories and Commemorative Extension: Between Museum and Monument 2. The Museum as Object: Reconstructing Houses of Terror 3. Statue Parks: Communism’s No Further Point 4. Memory Side by Side: The Shared Labour of Holocaust Commemoration 5. Sound-Proof Memory: Audibility as Historical Engagement 6. Conclusion: The Future is not an Alibi: Refusing the Deferral of Grief
Biography
Bryce Lease is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK.
