Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis
Vichy, Algeria, the Aftermath
Seiten
2025
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-07728-1 (ISBN)
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-07728-1 (ISBN)
Explores how French and Algerian dramatists addressed violence, conflict, and war trauma after the German occupation and Algerian War
Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis explores how French and Algerian dramatists have engaged with two traumatic events that continue to haunt France: the German occupation and Vichy government from 1940 to 1944 and the Algerian War from 1954 to 1962. John Ireland’s investigation is guided by one central question: can theater take on issues of violence, war trauma, and conflicted memory in a fundamentally different way from archival forms of culture such as memoirs, narrative fiction, and film? Throughout the twentieth century, French cultural anthropologists, classicists, and social scientists repeatedly revisited links between archaic religious ritual, the practice of sacrifice, and Greek tragedy as attempts to understand, regulate, and mitigate the violence of human conflict and war. Ireland argues that contemporary French playwrights dealing with war trauma and contested memory were influenced by aspects of this research that foregrounded the core virtues of oral culture: presence and the present, the “here and now” that also regulate theatrical performance. That connection to the present encouraged dramatists and performance artists to make “live” historiographical contributions to reverberating, unresolved history but also revived perennial therapeutic values of oral culture that evolved in ancient Greece. Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis brings original readings of canonical authors like Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet, Bernard-Marie Koltès, and Kateb Yacine into dialogue with non-canonical dramatists such as Armand Gatti, Liliane Atlan, and Noureddine Aba.
Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis explores how French and Algerian dramatists have engaged with two traumatic events that continue to haunt France: the German occupation and Vichy government from 1940 to 1944 and the Algerian War from 1954 to 1962. John Ireland’s investigation is guided by one central question: can theater take on issues of violence, war trauma, and conflicted memory in a fundamentally different way from archival forms of culture such as memoirs, narrative fiction, and film? Throughout the twentieth century, French cultural anthropologists, classicists, and social scientists repeatedly revisited links between archaic religious ritual, the practice of sacrifice, and Greek tragedy as attempts to understand, regulate, and mitigate the violence of human conflict and war. Ireland argues that contemporary French playwrights dealing with war trauma and contested memory were influenced by aspects of this research that foregrounded the core virtues of oral culture: presence and the present, the “here and now” that also regulate theatrical performance. That connection to the present encouraged dramatists and performance artists to make “live” historiographical contributions to reverberating, unresolved history but also revived perennial therapeutic values of oral culture that evolved in ancient Greece. Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis brings original readings of canonical authors like Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet, Bernard-Marie Koltès, and Kateb Yacine into dialogue with non-canonical dramatists such as Armand Gatti, Liliane Atlan, and Noureddine Aba.
John Ireland teaches French and Francophone Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Vichy France and the Algerian War: Two Conflicts, a Related Syndrome?
Chapter 2. Testimony and Trauma, History and Memory: Connecting Oral Culture to Theater
Chapter 3. Theater and War: From Banquet Culture to Classical Tragedy and Twentieth-Century France
Chapter 4. Jean-Paul Sartre: Dramatist and Controversial Conscience of Two Wars
Chapter 5. Armand Gatti, Liliane Atlan, and Jean-Claude Grumberg: Staging Vichy, Deportation and L’Univers concentrationnaire
Chapter 6. Kateb Yacine, Noureddine Aba, Jean Genet, Bernard-Marie Koltès: Algeria—A New Theater of War
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance |
| Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-472-07728-7 / 0472077287 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-472-07728-1 / 9780472077281 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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