In this exceptional investigation, Rustom Bharucha offers a compelling, non-Eurocentric perspective on the dangerous liaisons between terror and performance. Questioning the equation of 'terror' with 'terrorism,' this bold text offers alternative epistemologies and narratives of terror. It draws on a vast spectrum of human cruelties - relating to war, genocide, apartheid, communal and ethnic violence - in India, the Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa and Palestine, among other parts of the global South.
In this exceptional investigation, Rustom Bharucha offers a compelling, non-Eurocentric perspective on the dangerous liaisons between terror and performance. Questioning the equation of 'terror' with 'terrorism,' this bold text offers alternative epistemologies and narratives of terror. It draws on a vast spectrum of human cruelties - relating to war, genocide, apartheid, communal and ethnic violence - in India, the Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa and Palestine, among other parts of the global South.
Rustom Bharucha is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. He is a writer, director, dramaturg and cultural critic, as well as the author of several books, including Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture (Routledge, 1993).
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Preface i-vii Introduction: Mapping Terror in the War of Words 1-39 Provocation Impulse Doublespeak of 'terrorism' Risks of misunderstanding Ambivalences of terror Holy Terror Terror through a literary lens Visual overkill Performance/performativity/theatre Dangerous liaisons: terror and performance 1. Genet in Manila: 'September 11' in Retrospect 40-88 I Pre-Terror Deadly Innocence Intentionality Politics of the 'real' Event/betrayal: rethinking the political 'September 11': first exposure II Discourse Genres of terror 1. tragedy 2. Theatre of Cruelty The terror of repetition Deconstructing terror 1. trauma 2. autoimmunity Controversies 1. Stockhausen's blunder 2. The politics of empathy III Exit the Theatre 2. 'Muslims' in a Time of Terror: Deceptions, Demonization, and Uncertainties of Evidence 89-130 I Passing as a Muslim Constructing 'Muslims' Phenomenology of passing Queering the Muslim terrorist: beards and penises The beautiful terrorist The Sikh as Muslim II Recapitulation The Indian Muslim as Other Genocide in Godhra 'Dead certainty': the limits of performativity Outing the self 3. Countering Terror? The Search for Justice through Truth and Reconciliation 131-186 I Mapping the Terrain Multiple locations, different stakes The right to intervene II Rwanda The terror of statistics Realizing the unthinkable: the provocation of gacaca Gacaca as performance: a theoretical trap? Dramaturgy of gacaca The evidence of experience Performing Rwandanicity III South Africa The 'impossible machine' The theatricality of hearings Amnesty in performance Between performance and justice: an ethical impasse The 'truth' of story-telling IV Key Motifs of Truth and Reconciliation Performing silence Forgiveness, or 'living with evil'? Time and reconciliation Coda 4. Performing Non-Violence in the Age of Terror 187-231 Enter Gandhi Gandhi as Truth Commission Performing the Truth Commission The performativity of salt Non-violence: sacrifice or suicide? Suicide bombing: acts of performance 'Just War': ambivalences and duplicities Training to die?: the viability of non-violence The violence of non-violence Lip-sewing and blood graffiti: the weapons of the weak Towards justice? Postscript 232-239 Notes 240-285 Bibliography 286-300 Index
Preface i-vii Introduction: Mapping Terror in the War of Words 1-39 Provocation Impulse Doublespeak of 'terrorism' Risks of misunderstanding Ambivalences of terror Holy Terror Terror through a literary lens Visual overkill Performance/performativity/theatre Dangerous liaisons: terror and performance 1. Genet in Manila: 'September 11' in Retrospect 40-88 I Pre-Terror Deadly Innocence Intentionality Politics of the 'real' Event/betrayal: rethinking the political 'September 11': first exposure II Discourse Genres of terror 1. tragedy 2. Theatre of Cruelty The terror of repetition Deconstructing terror 1. trauma 2. autoimmunity Controversies 1. Stockhausen's blunder 2. The politics of empathy III Exit the Theatre 2. 'Muslims' in a Time of Terror: Deceptions, Demonization, and Uncertainties of Evidence 89-130 I Passing as a Muslim Constructing 'Muslims' Phenomenology of passing Queering the Muslim terrorist: beards and penises The beautiful terrorist The Sikh as Muslim II Recapitulation The Indian Muslim as Other Genocide in Godhra 'Dead certainty': the limits of performativity Outing the self 3. Countering Terror? The Search for Justice through Truth and Reconciliation 131-186 I Mapping the Terrain Multiple locations, different stakes The right to intervene II Rwanda The terror of statistics Realizing the unthinkable: the provocation of gacaca Gacaca as performance: a theoretical trap? Dramaturgy of gacaca The evidence of experience Performing Rwandanicity III South Africa The 'impossible machine' The theatricality of hearings Amnesty in performance Between performance and justice: an ethical impasse The 'truth' of story-telling IV Key Motifs of Truth and Reconciliation Performing silence Forgiveness, or 'living with evil'? Time and reconciliation Coda 4. Performing Non-Violence in the Age of Terror 187-231 Enter Gandhi Gandhi as Truth Commission Performing the Truth Commission The performativity of salt Non-violence: sacrifice or suicide? Suicide bombing: acts of performance 'Just War': ambivalences and duplicities Training to die?: the viability of non-violence The violence of non-violence Lip-sewing and blood graffiti: the weapons of the weak Towards justice? Postscript 232-239 Notes 240-285 Bibliography 286-300 Index
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