The memory marketplace : witnessing pain in contemporary Irish and international theatre / Emilie Pine.
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TextSeries: Irish culture, memory, and placePublisher: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780253049513 (e-book)
- Theater and society -- Ireland -- History -- 21st century
- Drama -- Social aspects -- Ireland -- History and criticism
- 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
- 792.09415 23
- PN2601 .P56 2020
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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