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Author:   Günther Heeg
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032039800

ISBN 10:   1032039809
Pages:   170
Publication Date:   31 March 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Idea of Transcultural Theater Chapter 1. In Becoming Beyond Our Grasp Theory, Experience, Idea Theater-thinking Writing Transcultural Theater Brecht and Transcultural Theater Chapter 2. The Topicality of Transcultural Theater Time for Theater Historical Constellation: Globalization and Fundamentalism Chapter 3. Theatrical Imaginings Globalization’s Theater of Images: The Situation Room The Phantasmic Theater of Fundamentalism: PEGIDA Chapter 4. Strangeness as the Site of Transcultural Theater The Fascination with Faraway Strangeness: Artaud and Balinese Theater Critique of Intercultural Theater Reciprocal Exposure and the Appropriation of Cultural Traditions Discovering Strangeness in Ownness The Precarious Status of the Migrant Chapter 5. Transit Existence Turning Toward History: Reflecting Historically upon Cultural History The Raft of the Medusa Ghosts in Transit: Frank Castorf’s Dämonen Brecht’s Migrant Writing Part II: The World Space of Transcultural Theater Chapter 6. The Theater of Becoming-World Globalization and mondialisation The Absence of Ground: The Groundless Motion of Transcultural Theater ""Theater can be the ship itself."" Schiller: Seestücke [Sea Plays] At the Back of Globalization Chapter 7. The Ptolemaic Theater of the World The Theology of the Ptolemaic Theater of the World The Copernican Revolution Chapter 8. The Theater of World Experience World Experience as Theater Experience: Fatzer 2 Experiencing the World of Things: The Primacy of the Object and the Narcissistic Wound Experiencing the World Transmedially: Situation Rooms Experiencing the World in a Historical Echo Chamber Part III: The Practice of Transcultural Theater Chapter 9. The Turn to History The Twofold Invocation of History History as the Theater of Repetition Chapter 10. The Rise and Fall of the Phantasm of National Culture The Story of Origin of National Culture The Symbolic Space and Body of the National Theater The Spectral Return of the Past Demolishing the Mausoleums of National Culture Chapter 11. Repetition as the Action of Transcultural Theater The Scene of Repetition: Brecht Repetition and Border-crossing: Wolfram Höll’s Und dann The Space-time of Repetition: Søren Kierkegaard’s Repetition Theater of Repetition: Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Life & Times Chapter 12. Revolution in the Caribbean: The Practice of Transcultural Inflection Chapter 13. The Gesture as the Actor of Transcultural Theater The Gesture’s Movement between Times and Spaces The Pathos of the Gesture between Life and Death The Futurity of the Gesture: Franz Kafka’s Nature Theater of Oklahoma Chapter 14. Transcultural Theater as a Powerhouse of Emotion The Power of Emotions Separating, Dividing, Affect The Stage of Transcultural Opening Index"

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Günther Heeg is Director of the Centre of Competence for Theater, Leipzig University, Germany.

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