Grzegorz Ziólkowski

A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary Suicide Protests by Fire and Their Resonances in Culture
Übersetzer: Szelagiewicz, Jan

• Format: PDF

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429607745
• Artikelnr.: 58651265

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