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Palestinian theatre in the West Bank : our human faces / Gabriel Varghese.
Van Pelt Library PN2919.42 .V37 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Varghese, Gabriel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Palestine.
- Theater.
- Theatrical companies--Palestine.
- Theatrical companies.
- Theater and society--Palestine.
- Theater and society.
- Middle East--Palestine.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 166 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Since the 1990s, Palestinian theatrical activities in the West Bank have expanded exponentially. As well as local productions, Palestinian theatre-makers have presented their work to international audiences on a scale unprecedented in Palestinian history. This book explores the histories of the five major theatre companies currently working in the West Bank: Al-Kasaba Theatre, Ashtar Theatre, Al-Harah Theatre, The Freedom Theatre and Al-Rowwad. Taking the first intifada (1987-93) as his point of departure, and drawing on original fieldwork and interviews with Palestinian practitioners, Gabriel Varghese introduces the term 'abject counterpublics to explore how theatre-makers contest Zionist discourse and Israeli state practices. By foregrounding Palestinian voices, and placing theories of abjection and counterpublic formation in conversation with each other, Varghese argues that theatre in the West Bank has been regulated by processes of colonial abjection and, yet, it is an important site for resisting Zionism's discourse of erasure and Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid. Palestinian Theatre in the West Bank: Our Human Faces is the first major account of Palestinian theatre covering the last three decades."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Cultural intifada, beautiful resistance
- Chapter 3: Arent we human?
- Chapter 4: A stage of ones own
- Chapter 5: Acting on the pain of others.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-160) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9783030302467
- 3030302466
- OCLC:
- 1151944019
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