Performance, Space, Utopia

SILVIJA JESTROVIC was born in Belgrade and lived in Toronto. She is Associate Professor at University of Warwick, UK. Her previous books include Theatre of Estrangement: Theory, Practice, Ideology (U of Toronto Press, 2006) and the edited collection (with Yana Meerzon) Performance, Exile, 'America' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). She has also written for stage and radio.

• List of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgements Cities of War, Cities of Exile: Introduction PART I: BELGRADE - THE CITY OF SPECTACLE City-as-Action At the Confluence of Utopia and Seduction Epilogue: Endemic Geopathologies Part II: SARAJEVO: IMAGINARIES AND EMBODIMENTS Waiting for Godot: Sarajevo and its Interpretations City-as-Body Theatricality vs. Bare Life Theatre as Ideal City PART III: CITY OF EXILE In the Comfort of Non-Place Bibliography Index