Theatre, Activism, Subjectivity: Searching for the Left in a Fragmented World
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AlbakiReads Editorial Performance, politics, and the Left in fragments
Performance, politics, and the Left in fragments
Edited by Bishnupriya Dutt, this collection approaches theatre and performance as sites for examining Left-leaning political struggle without treating “the Left” as a single, unified tradition. Its contributors work through local histories, comparisons, and smaller-scale movements, connecting artistic practice with ethical questions, political critique, and collective life. The volume also keeps subjectivity in view: individual experience is considered in dialogue with collective action rather than simply absorbed into it. Framed around a fragmented contemporary world, the book gathers past and present perspectives that use performance to reconsider political imagination and the varied cultural forms of Left politics.
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- Students and scholars of theatre history, performance studies, and criticism
- Readers interested in Left political thought, activism, and cultural politics
- Those seeking comparative, context-specific approaches to art and collective struggle
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Theatre and performanceLeft politicsActivismSubjectivity and collectivityPolitical imagination
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Book Overview Through the lens of performance and politics, this collection zooms in on the context-specific dimensions, analogies, and micro-histories...
Through the lens of performance and politics, this collection zooms in on the context-specific dimensions, analogies, and micro-histories of the Left to better understand the larger picture. It proposes a search for the Left not from totalising Leftist ideological positions and partisan politics but from ethical dimensions through smaller-scale Left-leaning struggles; not from the political to the aesthetic, but from the potentiality of art to offer new political imagination and critique; not from the individual subordinated to the collective, but from the dialectics of subjectivity and collectivity. This is not an attempt at a sweeping global overview of Leftist cultures either, but a collection that brings together culture-specific and comparative perspectives. This book searches for fragments of and on the Left, past and present, through which to rethink and patch a fragmented world.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 320 | Language: English | Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIV PR | ISBN: 1526178567
FormatHardcover
Pages320
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1526178567
EAN9781526178565
PublisherMANCHESTER UNIV PR
Publication Date2024-07-23
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.38 Pounds
Length9.21 Inches
Width6.14 Inches
Height0.75 Inches
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