Afterlife of the theatre of the absurd

The avant-garde, spectatorship, and psychoanalysis

Lara Cox - Collection Plg.humanities

220 pages, parution le 26/08/2011

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In 1961, Martin Esslin named a body of plays that lacked plot, character depth, and details of time and space the "Theatre of the Absurd". Esslin explained that this type of theatre, minimalist in the extreme, constituted a response to the existential crisis of Europe, which was in the midst of recovering from World War II. But the fact that this body of theatre lacked details of time and space means that we may break the ties that anchor the Theatre of the Absurd irremediably to the historical context of post-World War II Europe.

How can the Theatre of the Absurd speak meaningfully to us in the twenty-first century? This book explores this question by combining the avant-garde that Martin Esslin named in 1961 in his signature work The Theatre of the Absurd with gender studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis, and avant-garde studies. The Theatre of the Absurd is capable of subverting post-millennial institutions and ideologies, including the Prison Industrial Complex and the West's domination of the Islamic world in a post-9/11 era.

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Contents: Introduction - Comedy in Unexpected Places: Ionesco's The Bald Soprano (1950) - Remembrance Through Rejection: Active Nihilism, Vietnam, and Adamov's Off Limits - Psychotic recuperations of a multi-racial feminism in Beckett's Not I (1972) - Genet's The Blacks: Remixed at the Intersection of Gender and Race - Queering the Carceral and Assaulting America's Prison Industrial Complex: Arrabal's And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Peter Lang Ag
Auteur(s)	Lara Cox
Collection	Plg.humanities
Parution	26/08/2011
Nb. de pages	220
Format	14.8 x 21
Couverture	Broché
Poids	272g
EAN13	9782807601918