Staging difficult pasts : : transnational memory, theatres, and museums / / edited by Maria M. Delgado, Michal Kobialka and Bryce Lease.

• TeilnehmendeR: Delgado, Maria M.,; Kobialka, Michal,; Lease, Bryce,
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English

"This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences. Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, the book considers distinctions and interactions between memory and history specifically through the lenses of theatre and performance studies, visual culture, and museum and curator studies. This book is underpinned by three areas of research enquiry: How are contemporary theatre makers and museum curators staging historical narratives of difficult pasts? How might comparisons between theatre and museum practices offer new insights into the role objects play in generating and representing difficult pasts? What points of overlap, comparison and contrast among these constructions of history and memory of authoritarianism, slavery, colonialism, genocide, armed conflict, fascism and communism might offer an expanded understanding of difficult pasts in these transnational cultural contexts? This collection is designed for any scholar of its central disciplines, as well as for those interested in cultural geography, memory studies, and postcolonial theory"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Staging the story of a people : the politics of co-performance at the National Museum of African American History and Culture / Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley -- Theatricality & spectacle : the museum as object / Bryce Lease -- Curating the experiential : the Imperial War Museum's revised Holocaust galleries / James Bulgin in conversation with Bryce Lease -- The meaning of working through the past : of awkward objects and collateral memories / Michal Kobialka -- On crying perpetrators and subversive laughter : trans-affiliative encounters inside ESMA Memory Museum / Cecilia Sosa -- Refracting difficult pasts : temporal answers and the in-between / Rabih Mroué in conversation with Michal Kobialka -- Listening to the museum, hearing the mine : Mapa Teatro's live réplica to modernity / Giulia Palladini -- Showcasing anti-colonial nationalist struggles : museums and theatre in contestation / Bishnupriya Dutt -- 'It's art, all it can do is bear witness' : remembering histories of enslavement in Black British women's plays and at the International Slavery Museum / Lynette Goddard -- Chile's Museum of Memory and Human Rights : long life to the theatre! / Milena Grass Kleiner and Mariana Hausdorf Andrade -- On the making of the Oratorio for the Disappeared / Erika Diettes in conversation with Vikki Bell -- Enforced disappearance and silenced histories : Pedro Almodóvar's Madres paralelas/Parallel Mothers (2021) / Maria M. Delgado -- What remains : staging memory of enslavement in the Western Cape / Nadia Davids and Jay Pather in conversation with Bryce Lease -- Marketing a massacre : when outdoor dramas become dark tourism / Katrina Phillips -- Epilogue. 10 Strategies for exhibiting absence & loss : objects, narratives and trauma on display / Joanne Rosenthal.