Dr. Amin Erfani is a scholar of French and Francophone literature, a translator of contemporary and avant-garde theater and an author of dramatic plays. He is a professor of French language and literature at the City University of New York.

• Introduction: Theatricality, the Pandemic, & the Scapegoat Theatricality & the Concept Theatricality & the Metaphor Framing Theatricality Theatricality & New Media  Theatricality & the Pandemic Theatricality & Pharmakos  Theatricality & Festivals  Theatricality & the Abject Chapter 1: Artaud’s Contagious Cries: Virtuality as Aurality The Viceroy’s Dream Aurality in the Age of New Media  Chapter 2: Secular Prayers: Jean Genet Genet’s “The Criminal Child”  Writing Death: Suitcases, Circus, & Cemeteries  Chapter 3: The Stage of the Infant Tongue: Mimesis, Psychoanalysis, & the Avant-Garde The Split Scene of Mimesis Sigmund Freud: The “Psychopathic” Theater The “Other Scene” vs. the “Primal Scene” Beyond Neurosis and into the “Barbaric” Valère Novarina: Beyond the “Primal Scene”  Chapter 4: Monstrous Tongues: On Foreignness in the Theater of Bernard-Marie KoltèsThe Drive to Become “Other”: Life as Text Speaking “Foreign”: Monstruous Monologues Citing the Silent Tongue: “The Night Just Before the Forests”Language As Skin: “In the Solitude of Cotton Fields”  Chapter 5: The End of “Theory” is Only its Beginning: of “Theatricality” in Jacques Derrida’s CircumfessionPneuma: Burnt Signification  The HypertextLearned Ignorance La Langue crue & The “Labor of Theory”  Afterword

Dr. Amin Erfani is a scholar of French and Francophone literature, a translator of contemporary and avant-garde theater and an author of dramatic plays. He is a professor of French language and literature at the City University of New York.

• Introduction: Theatricality, the Pandemic, & the Scapegoat Theatricality & the Concept Theatricality & the Metaphor Framing Theatricality Theatricality & New Media  Theatricality & the Pandemic Theatricality & Pharmakos  Theatricality & Festivals  Theatricality & the Abject Chapter 1: Artaud’s Contagious Cries: Virtuality as Aurality The Viceroy’s Dream Aurality in the Age of New Media  Chapter 2: Secular Prayers: Jean Genet Genet’s “The Criminal Child”  Writing Death: Suitcases, Circus, & Cemeteries  Chapter 3: The Stage of the Infant Tongue: Mimesis, Psychoanalysis, & the Avant-Garde The Split Scene of Mimesis Sigmund Freud: The “Psychopathic” Theater The “Other Scene” vs. the “Primal Scene” Beyond Neurosis and into the “Barbaric” Valère Novarina: Beyond the “Primal Scene”  Chapter 4: Monstrous Tongues: On Foreignness in the Theater of Bernard-Marie KoltèsThe Drive to Become “Other”: Life as Text Speaking “Foreign”: Monstruous Monologues Citing the Silent Tongue: “The Night Just Before the Forests”Language As Skin: “In the Solitude of Cotton Fields”  Chapter 5: The End of “Theory” is Only its Beginning: of “Theatricality” in Jacques Derrida’s CircumfessionPneuma: Burnt Signification  The HypertextLearned Ignorance La Langue crue & The “Labor of Theory”  Afterword

Dr. Amin Erfani is a scholar of French and Francophone literature, a translator of contemporary and avant-garde theater and an author of dramatic plays. He is a professor of French language and literature at the City University of New York.

• Introduction: Theatricality, the Pandemic, & the Scapegoat Theatricality & the Concept Theatricality & the Metaphor Framing Theatricality Theatricality & New Media  Theatricality & the Pandemic Theatricality & Pharmakos  Theatricality & Festivals  Theatricality & the Abject Chapter 1: Artaud’s Contagious Cries: Virtuality as Aurality The Viceroy’s Dream Aurality in the Age of New Media  Chapter 2: Secular Prayers: Jean Genet Genet’s “The Criminal Child”  Writing Death: Suitcases, Circus, & Cemeteries  Chapter 3: The Stage of the Infant Tongue: Mimesis, Psychoanalysis, & the Avant-Garde The Split Scene of Mimesis Sigmund Freud: The “Psychopathic” Theater The “Other Scene” vs. the “Primal Scene” Beyond Neurosis and into the “Barbaric” Valère Novarina: Beyond the “Primal Scene”  Chapter 4: Monstrous Tongues: On Foreignness in the Theater of Bernard-Marie KoltèsThe Drive to Become “Other”: Life as Text Speaking “Foreign”: Monstruous Monologues Citing the Silent Tongue: “The Night Just Before the Forests”Language As Skin: “In the Solitude of Cotton Fields”  Chapter 5: The End of “Theory” is Only its Beginning: of “Theatricality” in Jacques Derrida’s CircumfessionPneuma: Burnt Signification  The HypertextLearned Ignorance La Langue crue & The “Labor of Theory”  Afterword