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The memory marketplace : witnessing pain in contemporary Irish and international theatre /

"What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace, Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends with its own culture and history. Analy...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pine, Emilie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2020]
Series:Irish culture, memory, and place.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Market for Pain
  • Tell Them That You Saw Us: Witnessing Docu-verbatim Memory
  • The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory
  • The Commissioned Witness, Theatre, and Truth
  • The Immaterial Labor of Listening: Presence, Absence, Failure, and the Commodification of the Witness
  • Consumers or Witnesses: Site-Specific Performance
  • Conclusion: Activism in the Marketplace.