ABSTRACT
Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography.
"Entangled histories" denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact and exchange between performance cultures affected all involved. Presenting case studies from across the world—spanning Africa, the Arab-speaking world, Asia, the Americas and Europe—the book’s contributors systematically expand, exemplify and examine the concept of "entangled histories," thus introducing various innovative concepts, theories and methodologies for investigating reciprocally consequential processes of interweaving performance cultures from the past. Bringing together examples of entanglements in theater and performance histories from a broad variety of geographical and historical backgrounds, the book’s contributions build together a broad basis for a possible and necessary paradigmatic shift in the field of theater and performance historiography.
Ideal for researchers and students of history, theater, performance, drama and dance, this volume opens novel perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of investigating the entangled histories of theater and performance cultures on a global scale.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |34 pages
Introduction: Entangled Performance Histories
part I|42 pages
Methodological Reflections
part II|48 pages
Hidden Histories—Forgetting and Remembering
chapter 783|27 pages
William Kentridge's The Head & The Load
chapter 4|19 pages
Hijikata Tatsumi at the Osaka World Exposition's Pepsi Pavilion, 1970
part III|40 pages
Entanglements between Drama, Theater and Colonial Historiographies
chapter 1265|18 pages
Disentangling Colonial Archives
chapter 6|20 pages
The Thorny Entanglements of Theater and Colonial Historiography in the Netherlands
part IV|46 pages
Emergence and Transformation of Genres
chapter 8|21 pages
Plumbing the Past to Project into the Future
part V|67 pages
National Theater Histories—Entanglements and Disentanglements