Bültmann & Gerriets
Afterlife of the Theatre of the Absurd
The Avant-garde, Spectatorship, and Psychoanalysis
von Lara Cox
Verlag: Peter Lang
Reihe: Dramaturgies Nr. 37
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-2-8076-0191-8
Erschienen am 17.05.2018
Sprache: Englisch
Format: 210 mm [H] x 148 mm [B] x 13 mm [T]
Gewicht: 291 Gramm
Umfang: 220 Seiten

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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.



Lara Cox teaches English at Université Picardie Jules Verne (France). She gained her Ph.D. in French theatre from the University of Exeter in 2012. She has published on visual culture (theatre, film, stand-up, art) and gender studies.



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 Americäs Prison Industrial Complex: Arrabal¿s And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers


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