A cruel theatre of self-immolations: contemporary suicide protests by fire and their resonances in culture

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Ziółkowski, Grzegorz 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Szelągiewicz, Jan (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2020
Schriftenreihe:Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies
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Zusammenfassung:"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. The core of the publication consists of six case studies of these ultimate acts, augmented with analyses and interpretations hailing from the visual arts, film, theatre, architecture, and literature. By examining responses to these events within an interdisciplinary frame, Ziółkowski highlights the phenomenon's global reach and creates a broad, yet in-depth, exploration of the problems that most often prompt these self-burnings, such as religious discrimination and harassment, war and its horrors, the brutality and indoctrination of authoritarian regimes and the apathy they produce, as well as the exploitation of the so-called "subalterns" and their exclusion from mainstream economic systems. Of interest to scholars from an array of fields, from theatre and performance, to visual art, to religion and politics, A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations offers a unique look at voluntary, demonstrative, and radical performances of shock and subversion"--
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 23, 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages)
ISBN:9780429059377
042905937X
9780429602221
0429602227
9780429607745
0429607741
9780429596704
0429596707

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