History, Memory, Performance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction

   • David Dean, Yana Meerzon, Kathryn Prince

   Pages 1-18

3. Discursive Practices and Narrative Models: History, Poetry, Philosophy

   • Freddie Rokem

   Pages 19-35

4. Performing Pasts for Present Purposes: Reenactment as Embodied, Performative History

   • Katherine Johnson

   Pages 36-52

5. Minding the Gap: The Choreographer as Hyper-Historian in Oral History-Based Performance

   • Jeff Friedman

   Pages 53-67

6. Un/becoming Nomad: Marc Lescarbot, Movement, and Metamorphosis in Les Muses de la Nouvelle France

   • V K Preston

   Pages 68-82

7. Group Biography, Montage, and Modern Women in Hooligans and Building Jerusalem

   • Nancy Copeland

   Pages 83-97

8. Alexander Pushkin’s Boris Godunov as Epic Theatre

   • J. Douglas Clayton

   Pages 98-115

9. Shakespeare Inside Out: Hamlet as Intertext in the USSR 1934–43

   • Irena R. Makaryk

   Pages 116-134

10. Raoul Wallenberg on Stage — or at Stake? Guilt and Shame as Obstacles in the Swedish Commemoration of their Holocaust Hero

    • Tanja Schult

    Pages 135-152

11. Staging Auschwitz, Making Witnesses: Performances between History, Memory, and Myth

    • Rachel E. Bennett

    Pages 153-168

12. Real Archive, Contested Memory, Fake History: Transnational Representations of Trauma by Lebanese War Generation Artists

    • Johnny Alam

    Pages 169-186

13. Performing Collective Trauma: 9/11 and the Reconstruction of American Identity

    • Josy Miller

    Pages 187-202

14. Contemporary Brazilian Theatre: Memories of Violence on the Post-Dictatorship Stage

    • Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento

    Pages 203-221

15. Bent and the Staging of the Queer Holocaust Experience

    • Samantha Mitschke

    Pages 222-239

16. Partners in Conversation: Ethics and the Emergent Practice of Oral History Performance

    • Edward Little, Steven High

    Pages 240-256

17. Back Matter

    Pages 257-292

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History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts. At its core are contributions from theatre scholars and public historians discussing how historical meaning is shaped through performance.

• theatre history
• theatre and holocaust
• performative history
• identity
• stage
• theatre
• William Shakespeare

• Department of History, Carleton University, Canada

  David Dean

• Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Canada

  Yana Meerzon, Kathryn Prince

Johnny Alam, Carleton University, Canada Rachel E. Bennett, University of Illinois, USA J. Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa, Canada Nancy Copeland, University of Toronto, Canada Jeff Friedman, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, USA Steven High, Concordia University, Canada Katherine Johnson, University of Sydney, Australia Edward (Ted) Little, Concordia University, Canada Irena (Irene) R. Makaryk, University of Ottawa, Canada Josy Miller, University of California, Davis, USA Claudia Tatinge Nascimento, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany Kathryn Prince, University of Ottawa, Canada Samantha Mitschke, University of Birmingham, UK VK Preston, McGill University, Canada Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University, Israel Tanja Schult, Hugo Valentin Centre at Uppsala, Sweden

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