1st Edition
Theatre and Revolution Global Perspectives on Performance
Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgements
“Introduction: Archives, Temporalities, and Spaces of Revolution”
Logan J. Connors, Lillian Manzor, Emily Sahakian
I. Performance Archives, Repertoires, and Memories of Revolution
Chapter 1
“Of Riots and Representations: The Case of Auguste Macouba’s Play Eïa! Man-maille là!”
Andy Stafford
Chapter 2
“Rocking the Canboulay: Trinidad’s Jamette Carnival Outside the Shadow of Revolt”
Stephen Cedars
Chapter 3
“The National Discourse of a Revolution: Theatrical Censorship and Chavismo Performativity”
Neta Kanny
Chapter 4
“Performing Tropicana: Cuban-American Theater Between Memory and Revolution”
Lilianne Lugo Herrera
Chapter 5
“Theater Adaptation as a Critical Reservoir of the Mexican Revolution’s Memories in Mendoza by Los Colochos Teatro”
Maritza Beatriz García Rodríguez
II. Ruptures and Repetitions of Revolutionary Time
Chapter 6
“Repeat Performances: Rehearsing the French Revolution in Late Qing Chinese Theater”
Cecilia Feilla
Chapter 7
“Revolutionary Avant-Garde Puppetry from Germany, through Japan, to China”
Siyuan Liu
Chapter 8
“Heiner Müller, The Mission, and Revolutionary Time”
Liam Johnston-McCondach
Chapter 9
“Performing Revolution in the Age of Revolutions: Guillaume Tell across the Revolutionary Chasm”
Marc H. Lerner
Chapter 10
“Revolutionary Time in Edouard Glissant’s Monsieur Toussaint and Maryse Condé’s An tan révolisyon”
Soraya Limare
III. Places and Spaces of Revolutionary Performance
Chapter 11
“Three Stages of Iranian Theater in Revolution”
Yassaman Khajehi
Chapter 12
“Spatial Interventions and Material Re-appropriations: Resisting the Aestheticization of Reality in the New York Young Lords’ Garbage Offensive(s)”
Briana Beeman
Chapter 13
“Retaking Chile: Theater and Space in Authoritarian Times”
Melissa González-Contreras
Chapter 14
“Theatricality, Performativity, and the Fête révolutionnaire: The Paradoxes of French Revolutionary Festivals as Performed Assembly”
Alexis Stanley
Chapter 15
“R for Rehearsal, R for Revolution: Stories from and About Tahrir Square”
Dalia Basiouny
Index
Biography
Logan J. Connors is Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, USA.
Lillian Manzor is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies. She is the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas at the University of Miami, USA and founding director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive (www.cubantheater.org).
Emily Sahakian is Associate Professor of Theater and French, jointly appointed in the Departments of Theatre & Film and Romance Languages, at the University of Georgia, USA.
