The memory marketplace : witnessing pain in contemporary Irish and international theatre /
Emilie Pine.
- 1 online resource (262 pages).
- Irish Culture, Memory, Place .
- Irish culture, memory, and place. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Market for Pain -- Tell Them That You Saw Us: Witnessing Docu-verbatim Memory -- The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory -- The Commissioned Witness, Theatre, and Truth -- The Immaterial Labor of Listening: Presence, Absence, Failure, and the Commodification of the Witness -- Consumers or Witnesses: Site-Specific Performance -- Conclusion: Activism in the Marketplace.
9780253049513 (e-book)
Theater and society--History--Ireland--21st century. Drama--Social aspects--History and criticism.--Ireland Theater and society--History--20th century. Drama--Social aspects--History and criticism. Pain in literature. Psychic trauma in literature. Collective memory in literature. Collective memory and literature.