LEADER 03279nam 2200433 450 001 9910524649803321 005 20220921141156.0 010 $a0-8101-4387-9 035 $a(CKB)5590000000516685 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000516685 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/91654 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000516685 100 $a20220921d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe theater of narration $efrom the peripheries of history to the main stages of Italy /$fJuliet Guzzetta 210 $cNorthwestern University Press$d2021 210 1$aEvanston, Illinois :$cNorthwestern University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-8101-4386-0 311 $a0-8101-4388-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: The Past and the Players -- Origins of a Practice -- The Cultural Laborer -- A Language of One's Own -- Locating Community -- Experiments with Media -- Conclusion: Politicizing History. 330 $aHonorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies This book examines the theater of narration, an Italian performance genre and aesthetic that revisits historical events of national importance from local perspectives, drawing on the rich relationship between personal experiences and historical accounts. Incorporating original research from the private archives of leading narrators?artists who write and perform their work?Juliet Guzzetta argues that the practice teaches audiences how ordinary people aren?t simply witnesses to history but participants in its creation. The theater of narration emerged in Italy during the labor and student protests, domestic terrorism, and social progress of the 1970s. Developing Dario Fo and Franca Rame?s style of political theater, influenced by Jerzy Grotowski and Bertolt Brecht, and following in the freewheeling actor?author traditions of the commedia dell?arte, narrators created a new form of popular theater that grew in prominence in the 1990s and continues to gain recognition. Guzzetta traces the history of the theater of narration, contextualizing its origins?both political and intellectual?and centers the contributions of Teatro Settimo, a performance group overlooked in previous studies. She also examines the genre?s experiments in television and media. The first full-length book in English on the subject, The Theater of Narration leverages close readings and a wealth of primary sources to examine the techniques used by narrators to remake history?a process that reveals the ways in which history itself is a theater of narration. 606 $aItalian drama$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 610 $aPerforming arts 615 0$aItalian drama$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a852.9109 700 $aGuzzetta$b Juliet$01260786 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524649803321 996 $aThe theater of narration$92922186 997 $aUNINA