Refugee performance [[electronic resource] ] : practical encounters / / edited by Michael Balfour

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462883603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol, : Intellect, 2013
• ISBN: 1-84150-786-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BalfourMichael
• Disciplina: 792.022
• Soggetti: Theater - Political aspects; Theater and society; Performing arts - Political aspects; Refugees as artists; Refugees in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Illustrations; Author Biographies; Preface; Chapter 1: Iraqi Memories. A Personal and Poetic Exploration of Homecomings, Departures and Arrivals from a Theatre Director Who Fled Iraq in 1987 and Returns Home Again; Chapter 2: On Stitches; Chapter 3: Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication, and Culture; Chapter 4: Play Extract: Forged in Fire; Chapter 5: Narrative Theatre as an Interactive Community Approach to Mobilizing Collective Action in Northern Uganda; Chapter 6: Marketing Trauma and the Theatre of War in Northern UgandaChapter 7: Encounters in the Aida Refugee Camp in Palestine: Travel Notes on Attending Alrowwad Theatre's Production of Handala (2011); Chapter 8: Rape as War Strategy: A Drama from Croatia; Chapter 9: Far Away, So Close: Psychosocial and Theatre Activities with Serbian Refugees; Chapter 10: Play Extract: Refugees; Chapter 11: 'Politics Begins as Ethics': Levinasian Ethics and Australian Performance Concerning Refugees; Chapter 12: Refugee Performance: Encounters with Alterity; Chapter 13: Repeat Performance: Dancing DiDinga with the Lost Boys of Southern SudanChapter 14: Theatre as a Healing Space: Ping Chong's Children of War; Chapter 15: Drama and Citizenship Education: Tensions of Creativity, Content and Cash; Chapter 16: Inclusive Democracy: A Consideration of Playback Theatre with Refugee and Asylum Seekers in Australia; Chapter 17: Hospitable Stages and Civil Listening: Being an Audience for Participatory Refugee Theatre; Index; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: The title of this book, Refugee Performance, suggests there is a constituency of practices that might be unified under a definite term or god forbid to propose a new field of study. This is far from the intentions of the collection. This collection has grown out of an interest in performance and theatre in sites of war and the impact of conflict on diasporic communities. The chapters represent stories from a range of countries and war contexts, including Iraq, Thailand, Burma, Uganda, Palestine, Croatia, Serbia, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. This is by no mea