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Trauma-tragedy : symptoms of contemporary performance /

Trauma-Tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they could help us to understand trauma on personal and social levels. In a world increasingly preocc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Duggan, Patrick, 1981-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2012.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Trauma's performance genealogy
  • Trauma-tragedy : a structure of feeling
  • Mimetic shimmering and the performance punctum
  • Performance 'texts' as sites of witness
  • Being there : the 'presence' of trauma
  • Another view
  • Conclusion : trauma-tragedy and the contemporary moment.