Grzegorz Ziólkowski

A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations

Contemporary Suicide Protests by Fire and Their Resonances in Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Cruel Theatre of Self-immolations investigates contemporary protest self-burnings and their echoes across culture. The book provides a conceptual frame for the phenomenon and an annotated, comprehensive timeline of suicide protests by fire, supplemented with notes on artworks inspired by or devoted to individual cases.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781032238456
• ISBN-10: 1032238453
• Artikelnr.: 62952855

Autorenporträt

Grzegorz Ziólkowski is a theatre director and Professor of Theatre and Performance at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. He has authored monographs on Peter Brook and Jerzy Grotowski, and co-edited special issues of Polish Theatre Perspectives (Voices from Within), Performance Research (On Performatics), and Contemporary Theatre Review ( Polish Theatre After 1989).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledegments Introduction Part I. Mapping Suicide
Protests by Fire Part II. Chronology: Notes and Microstudies on Selected
Protest Self-Burnings (1963-2017) Part III. Selected Contemporary Ultimate
Protests by Fire and Their Echoes Across Culture 1. A Lotus in a Sea of
Fire: On Two Self-Immolations Performed During the War in Vietnam 2.
Confronting Defeat: On Two Protest Self-Incinerations Performed After the
Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia 3. Sparks: On Two Self-Burnings
Protesting the Exploitation of Subalterns References Index