Theatre, activism, subjectivity : Searching for the Left in a fragmented world / ed. by Bishnupriya Dutt, Silvija Jestrovic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dutt, Bishnupriya, Editor.

Jestrovic, Silvija, Editor.

Series:

Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance Series

Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right and left (Political science).

Theater--Political aspects.

Theater.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 12 illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of illustrations

List of Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Searching for the Left in a fragmented world

Part I: Activism

Performing the Constitution as an insurgent document

Revolution: like, share, subscribe

The 'hunger artists': Hunger protests, prisons, and insurgent citizenship

Of quiet resistance: Shy Radicals, divergent world-making, and the poetics of statecraft

Part II: Theatre

Acting politically: Making performance in the eye of history

Theatre of the streets: Of working-class strikes, protests, and democratisation of life

The Cheviot and its legacies: Dramaturgies of the Left in Scottish theatre

Between the Right and the Left: Staging political, emotional, and social polarisations on the Canadian stage

The indiscreet charm of Left nostalgia: Reeking redolence in the contemporary

Staging revolution: Utpal Dutt's Kallol (1965) and the question of 'spectacular' aesthetics in Calcutta's Leftist theatre practice

Love in the time of revolution: Exploring the political theatre of Utpal Dutt

Part III: Subjectivity

Revolutionary intimacies: Friendship, love, and theatre

The fraught act of speaking for/about the communist women

One always fails to speak of the things one loves: Memories of border crossings

Why I am still a socialist

Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2024)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5261-8817-1

1-5261-7855-9

OCLC:

1443933639