03371nam 2200625 450 991081851170332120230809224055.03-11-051708-63-11-051543-110.1515/9783110517088(CKB)3710000001307342(MiAaPQ)EBC4855904(DE-B1597)472777(OCoLC)987936876(DE-B1597)9783110517088(Au-PeEL)EBL4855904(CaPaEBR)ebr11382563(OCoLC)987091788(EXLCZ)99371000000130734220170529h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierTheatre on terror subject positions in British drama /Ariane de WaalBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2017.©20171 online resource (298 pages) illustrationsCDE Studies,2194-9069 ;Volume 273-11-051512-1 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Framework -- 3. Home-Front Plays: Subject Positions in the British Terror City -- 4. Front-Line Plays: Positioning 'Self', 'Other', and Other Selves in Iraq and Afghanistan -- 5. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- General Index -- Index of PlaysIn a moment of intense uncertainty surrounding the means, ends, and limits of (countering) terrorism, this study approaches the recent theatres of war through theatrical stagings of terror. Theatre on Terror: Subject Positions in British Drama charts the terrain of contemporary subjectivities both 'at home' and 'on the front line'. Beyond examining the construction and contestation of subject positions in domestic and (sub)urban settings, the book follows border-crossing figures to the shifting battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. What emerges through the analysis of twenty-one plays is not a dichotomy but a dialectics of 'home' and 'front', where fluid, uncontainable subjects are constantly pushing the contours of conflict. Revising the critical consensus that post-9/11 drama primarily engages with 'the real', Ariane de Waal argues that these plays navigate the complexities of the discourse - rather than the historical or social realities - of war and terrorism. British 'theatre on terror' negotiates, inflects, and participates in the discursive circulation of stories, idioms, controversies, testimonies, and pieces of (mis)information in the face of global insecurities. CDE studies ;Volume 27.English dramaHistory and criticismTheaterGreat BritainHistory20th century9/11.Contemporary British Theatre.Drama.Subject Positions.Terror.English dramaHistory and criticism.TheaterHistory822.009HN 1261rvkDe Waal Ariane1599397De Waal ArianeMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818511703321Theatre on terror3922053UNINA