Beschreibung:
"-Elin Diamond, Rutgers UniversitySpectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism and the Holocaust considers how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to reflect larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory.
Introduction1. Shattered Cartographies: Fascism, the Holocaust, and Tropes about Representation2. Reproduction, Appropriation, and Binary Machinery: Fascist Ideology and Theatricalization3. Feminism and the Jewish Subject: Holocaust Theatre and the Politics of Difference and Identity4. Realism, Gender, and Historical Crisis: Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine and "Julia"5. Theatre of Injury and Injustice: Staging the Body in Pain6. Spectacular Suffering: Performing Presence, Absence, and Witness at U.S. Holocaust MuseumsNotesReferencesIndex