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History as Performance Political Movements in Galicia Around 1900

330 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

330 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

330 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Description

This study analyzes history as performance: as the interaction of actors, plays, stages and enactments. By this, it examines women’s politics in Habsburg Galicia around 1900: a Polish woman active in the peasant movement, a Ukrainian feminist, and a Jewish Zionist. It shows how the movements constructed essentialistically regarded collectives, experience as a medially comprehensible form of... Read more

Introduction

Arenas: Politics in Galicia

Tools: Performance, performativity, ritual, and space

Rules: Research contexts

Strategies: Approaches

1. Finding Roles: The Participants

Heroic narrating, or: Maria Wysłouchowa and love

Dramatic directing, or Natalja Kobryns’ka and books

Theatrical enacting, or: Rosa Pomeranz and charisma

2. Propagating: The Plays

Writing collectives into existence

Composing experience

Enacting history

3. Organizing: The Stages

Ritualizing education

Rehearsing nation

Designing society

4. Mobilizing: The Enactments