Performance, Subjectivity, Cosmopolitanism

Yana Meerzon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 290 Seiten

2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-41409-2 (ISBN)

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This book looks at the connection between contemporary theatre practices and cosmopolitanism, a philosophical condition of social behaviour based on our responsibility, respect, and healthy curiosity to the other. Advocating for cosmopolitanism has become a necessity in a world defined by global wars, mass migration, and rise of nationalism. Using empathy, affect, and telling personal stories of displacement through embodied encounter between the actor and their audience, performance arts can serve as a training ground for this social behavior. In the centre of this encounter is a new cosmopolitan: a person of divided origins and cultural heritage, someone who speaks many languages and claims different countries as their place of belonging. The book examines how European and North American theatres stage this divided subjectivity: both from within, the way we tell stories about ourselves to others, and from without, through the stories the others tell about us.

Yana Meerzon teaches in the Department of Theatre at University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests are in drama and performance theory, and theatre of migration and nationalisms. Her book publications include A Path of the Character: Michael Chekhov's Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics (2005) and Performing Exile - Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film (2012). She has co-edited several collections, such as Performance, Exile and 'America' (2009) , Adapting Chekhov: The Text and Its Mutations (2012) , History, Memory, Performance (2015) , and The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov (2017). A special issue of the journal Modern Drama (2018) and the volume Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multilingual Encounters (2019) have seen her focus on multilingualism and migration. With an ongoing interest in theatre and immigration in Canada, she edited a special issue of Theatre Research in Canada (2015) and a two-volume project published by Playwrights Canada (2019).

1. Introduction: Setting the Stage - Performing the Divided Self of a New Cosmopolitanism.- 2. Chapter One: Dramaturgies of the Self: Staging the Décalage of Vernacular Cosmopolitanism.- 3. Chapter Two: 'Speaking in Tongues': Staging Hospitality of (Non)Translation.- 4. Chapter Three: Dramaturgies of the Body: Staging Stranger-Fetishism in a Cosmopolitan Solo Performance.- 5. Chapter Four: Staging Cosmoprolis - Constructing the Chorus Play.- 6. Chapter Five: Dramaturgies of the Gaze: On the Intimate Realities of Cosmopolitanism.- 7. Chapter Six: Staging Affective Citizenship - Constructing Communities of Hope.- 8. Chapter Seven: How to Be a Cosmopolitan: Concluding Remarks.

"Performance, Subjectivity, Cosmopolitanism, is not only timely but welcome in its attempt to analyse such phenomena in performing arts aesthetics. ... As multicultural fatigue continues, many scholars, myself included, who remain interested in post- colonial intercultural, and plurilingual theatre performance will find renewed inspiration in to Meerzon's insights and positionality. ... Interdisciplinary scholars working across humanities, postcolonial studies, and interculturalism will certainly gain deeper insights ... that characterize the interesting times we find ourselves in." (Eury Colin Chang, Recherche littéraire - Literary Research, Vol. 37, 2021)
"Meerzon makes a remarkable contribution to theatre and performance studies, which inspires further research on the relationship among cosmopolitanism, theatre, and performance. ... Meerzon's book is one of a few monographs that lead the way for scholars of theatre and performance studies to explore performance's potential and limits to challenge nations' inhuman migration laws and practices from a cosmopolitan perspective." (Hanife Schulte, Contemporary Theatre Review, September 17, 2021)

Erscheinungsdatum	09.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	X, 290 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	519 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Schlagworte	Affect • Audience • Capitalism • Cosmopolitanism • exile • Hypermodernity • Individualism • Migration • Mobility • Performance Art • self • Subjectivity
ISBN-10	3-030-41409-4 / 3030414094
ISBN-13	978-3-030-41409-2 / 9783030414092
Zustand	Neuware