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Staging Difficult Pasts: Transnational Memory, Theatres, and Museums book cover

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Staging Difficult Pasts Transnational Memory, Theatres, and Museums

Edited By Maria M. Delgado, Michal Kobialka, Bryce Lease Copyright 2024
294 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences. Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, this volume considers distinctions and interactions between memory and history specifically through... Read more

1. Staging the Story of a People: The Politics of Co-Performance at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley

2. Theatricality & Spectacle: The Museum as Object

Bryce Lease

3. Curating the Experiential: The Imperial War Museum’s Revised Holocaust Galleries.

James Bulgin in conversation with Bryce Lease

4. The Meaning of Working Through the Past: Of Awkward Objects and Collateral Memories

Michal Kobialka

5. On Crying Perpetrators and Subversive Laughter: Trans-Affiliative Encounters inside ESMA Memory Museum

Cecilia Sosa

6. Refracting Difficult Pasts: Temporal Answers and the In-Between.

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Michal Kobialka

7. Listening to the museum, hearing the mine: Mapa Teatro’s live réplica to modernity

Giulia Palladini

8. Showcasing Anti-colonial Nationalist Struggles: Museums and Theatre in Contestation

Bishnupriya Dutt

9. ‘It’s art, all it can do is bear witness’: Remembering Histories of Enslavement in Black British Women’s Plays and at the International Slavery Museum

Lynette Goddard

10. Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights: Long Life to the Theatre!

Milena Grass Kleiner and Mariana Hausdorf Andrade

11. On the Making of the Oratorio for the Disappeared

Erika Diettes in conversation with Vikki Bell

12. Enforced Disappearance and Silenced Histories: Pedro Almodóvar’s Madres paralelas/Parallel Mothers (2021)

Maria M. Delgado

13. What Remains: Staging Memory of Enslavement in the Western Cape

Nadia Davids and Jay Pather in conversation with Bryce Lease

14. Marketing a Massacre: When Outdoor Dramas Become Dark Tourism

Katrina Phillips

15. Epilogue - 10 Strategies for Exhibiting Absence & Loss: Objects, Narratives and Trauma on Display

Joanne Rosenthal

Biography

Maria M. Delgado is Professor and Vice Principal (Research and Knowledge Exchange) at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK.

Michal Kobialka is Paul W. Frenzel Professor in Liberal Arts and Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Bryce Lease is Professor and Head of Knowledge Exchange at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK.

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