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Author:   Maurya Wickstrom (City University of New York, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9781350143296

ISBN 10:   1350143294
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   26 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction 1 Political Mother: Introductory Remarks on Chronological Time and Changing Time 2 Fire 8 Theatre and Beginnings 13 Initiations of History 15 Processional History, Historicism, and Walter Benjamin's Radical Time 18 The Now, the New, and the Present 24 The Field: In Three Sections 27 Methodology/Positionality 42 The Chapters 45 2 There Are No More Slaves: The New Present and a Temporal Philosophy of Revolt (Plays on the Haitian Revolution) 57 The Problem with Tragedy 58 C. L. R. James, Communism, and Black International Radicalism 62 Plays on the Haitian Revolution 67 Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History 70 The Tragedy of King Christophe 90 3 Changing Time in the Time Before the End 115 You Are Nowhere 120 Refuse the Hour 135 Before Your Very Eyes 154 On the Concept of the Face: Regarding the Son of God 166 4 The Volatility of Time in the Hold: Kairos and the To-Come 173 Real Magic 174 Tiresias 185 Beytna 200 Thoughts in the Time Before the End 206 Notes 215 Bibliography 231 Index 239

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The book ... comes alive in its loving exploration of emblematic performances that blaze thrilling new directions for performance and for the narratives that support them ... There is a wealth of inspiration here. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE * In a wonderful book that sets itself compellingly against death, against tragedy, against the closures and comforts of (theatrical) repetition, Maurya Wickstrom designates the theatre she loves as the source of an irruptive force of initiation. An initiation that is not against anything, that is not mere resistance, but insists instead upon being for something, for something before the end, for revolution, perhaps. Its bold claims are sustained through illuminating attention to the experience of a contemporary theatre that wrestles with its own contemporaneity.

The book ... comes alive in its loving exploration of emblematic performances that blaze thrilling new directions for performance and for the narratives that support them ... There is a wealth of inspiration here. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE * In a wonderful book that sets itself compellingly against death, against tragedy, against the closures and comforts of (theatrical) repetition, Maurya Wickstrom designates the theatre she loves as the source of an irruptive force of initiation. An initiation that is not against anything, that is not mere resistance, but insists instead upon being for something, for something before the end, for revolution, perhaps. Its bold claims are sustained through illuminating attention to the experience of a contemporary theatre that wrestles with its own contemporaneity. -- Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

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MAURYA WICKSTROM is Professor of Theatre at The Graduate Center and College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA.

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