Staging Trauma Bodies in Shadow
This book investigates contemporary British and Irish performances that stage traumatic narratives, histories, acts and encounters. It includes a range of case studies that consider the performative, cultural and political contexts for the staging and rec
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Miriam Haughton Contemporary Performance InterActions Series editors: Elaine Aston and Brian Singleton
Contemporary Performance InterActions Series editors Elaine Aston Lancaster University Lancaster, UK Brian Singleton Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland
Theatre’s performative InterActions with the politics of sex, race and class, with questions of social and political justice, form the focus of the Contemporary Performance InterActions series. Performative InterActions are those that aspire to affect, contest or transform. International in scope, CPI publishes monographs and edited collections dedicated to the InterActions of contemporary practitioners, performances and theatres located in any world context. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14918
Miriam Haughton
Staging Trauma Bodies in Shadow
Miriam Haughton National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Contemporary Performance InterActions ISBN 978-1-137-53662-4 ISBN 978-1-137-53663-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53663-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017960964 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: @ Laundry (c) ANU Productions Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom
This book is dedicated to all the brave storytellers, shining a light on the bodies in shadow, changing the spaces we know.
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