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Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History(Methuen Drama Engage)

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Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History takes up the urgent need to think about temporality and its relationship to history in new ways, focusing on theatre and performance as mediums through which politically innovative temporalities, divorced from historical processionism and the future, are inaugurated. Wickstrom is guided by three temporal concepts: the new present, the penultimate, and kairos, as developed by Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, and Antonio Negri respectively. She works across a field of performance that includes play texts by Aimé Césaire and C.L.R. James, and performances from Ni’Ja Whitson to Cassils, the Gob Squad to William Kentridge and African colonial revolts, Hofesh Schechter to Forced Entertainment to Andrew Schneider and Omar Rajeh. Along the way she also engages with Walter Benjamin, black international and radical thought and performance, Bruno Latour, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s logistics and the hold, and accelerationism. Representing a significant contribution to the growing interest in temporality in Theatre and Performance Studies, the book offers alternatives to what have been prevailing temporal preoccupations in those fields. Countering investments in phenomenology, finitude, ghosting, repetition, and return, Wickstrom argues that theatre and performance can create a fiery sense of how to change time and thereby nominate a new possibility for what it means to live.

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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350143296
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Series Title: Methuen Drama Engage
  • Sub Title: The Initiation of History
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1350143294
  • Publisher Date: 26 Dec 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 308 gr


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