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The Memory Marketplace : Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Irish and International Theatre.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Irish Culture, Memory, Place SeriesPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (262 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253049513
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Memory MarketplaceDDC classification:
  • 792.09415000000001
LOC classification:
  • PN2601 .P56 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Market for Pain -- 1. Tell Them That You Saw Us: Witnessing Docu-verbatim Memory -- 2. The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory -- 3. The Commissioned Witness, Theatre, and Truth -- 4. The Immaterial Labor of Listening: Presence, Absence, Failure, and the Commodification of the Witness -- 5. Consumers or Witnesses? Site-Specific Performance -- Conclusion: Activism in the Marketplace -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: The complexities and nuances of this exchange--subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified--provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Market for Pain -- 1. Tell Them That You Saw Us: Witnessing Docu-verbatim Memory -- 2. The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory -- 3. The Commissioned Witness, Theatre, and Truth -- 4. The Immaterial Labor of Listening: Presence, Absence, Failure, and the Commodification of the Witness -- 5. Consumers or Witnesses? Site-Specific Performance -- Conclusion: Activism in the Marketplace -- Index -- About the Author.

The complexities and nuances of this exchange--subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified--provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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