Violence Performed

CATHERINE COLE is Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA MARY KAREN DAHL is Professor of Theatre at Florida State University, USA MAYA DODD is Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Education at FLAME (Foundation for Liberal and Management Education) in Pune, IndiaLAURA EDMONDSON is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at Dartmouth College, USASUSAN HAEDICKE currently teaches Performance Studies and Theatre History and Theory in the Department of Theatre at University of Maryland/College Park, USAKETU KATRAK is a Professor of Asian-American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USAEDDY KENT is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, CanadaSUK-YOUNG KIM is Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USASONJA KUFTINEC is an Associate Professor of Theater Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota, USABARBARA LEWIS is the Director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA, where she holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Africana Studies and EnglishJON MCKENZIE is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin, USATONY PERUCCI is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, USAMARK PHELAN is a Lecturer in Drama at Queen's University Belfast, UKPEGGY PHELAN is the Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts and Professor of Drama and English at Stanford University, USAFREDDIE ROKEM is Professor of Theatre Studies at Tel Aviv University, IsraelLES WADE is Associate Professor of Dramatic Literature, Theory, and Criticism at Louisiana State University, USA

• ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Violence Performed; P.Anderson and J.Menon Sublime Trauma: The Violence of Ethical Encounter; L.Wade The "Outsider" Outside: Performing Immigration in French Street Theatre; S.Haedicke The Poetics of Displacement and the Politics of Genocide in Three Plays about Rwanda; L.Edmondson The Case for Postcolonial Liberalism in Hanif Kureishi's My Son the Fanatic ; E.Kent Decorated Death and the Double Whammy: Attempting to Erase the Excluded through Minstrelsy and Lynching; B.Lewis Sacrificial Practices: Creating the Legacy of Stephen Lawrence; M.K.Dahl Violence Makes the Body Politic(al): Technologies of Corporeal Literacy in Indian Democracy; M.Dodd Performance, Transitional Justice, and the Law: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission; C.Cole 'To Lie Down to Death for Days': The Turkish Hunger Strike, 2000-2003; P.Anderson The Arts of Resistance: Arundhati Roy, Denise Uyehara, and the Ethno-global Imagination; K.Katrak Violent Reformations: Image Theatre with Youth in Conflict Regions; S.A.Kuftinec Narrative Representations of Violence and Terrorism: Tragedy and History in Hanoch Levin's Theatre; F.Rokem Not So Innocent Landscapes: Remembrance, Representation, and the Disappeared; M.Phelan Directing Tourists and Escapees: North Korea's Two Conflicting National Performances; S-Y.Kim Abu Ghraib and the Society of the Spectacle of the Scaffold; J.McKenzie Performance Complexes: Abu Ghraib and the Culture of Neoliberalism; T.Perucci Afterword: 'In the Valley of the Shadow of Death': The Photographs of Abu Ghraib; P.PhelanIndex

'...vibrant and vital collection...' - Theatre Research International 'Violence Performed is an important contribution to studies of violence in political contexts worldwide' - Lynette Hunter, Professor of the History of Rhetoric and Performance, UC Davis, USA 'Violence Performed is more than a collection of essays: it is a call to critical arms for all scholars in theatre and performance studies engaged with the challenges of bearing witness to global violence, and to the violence of the "global" as a constitutive discourse of late modernity. Anderson and Menon ask us to explore not only the places and performances of cultural and political trauma, but also the larger ethical questions that attend our work on trauma "elsewhere". What are the politics of performing violence? Of writing about violence performed? These are the urgent questions at the heart of this valuable book.'- Kim Solga, Associate Professor of English, University of Western Ontario, Canada 'Few works balance the theoretical charge of their arguments with such powerful contempoary examples. Given that the emphasis is on the performative aspects of violence, the editors do a terrifc work of examining not merely the staged (which assumes social and political actors) but also the spectacular (that which assumes rapid dissemination and disruption of the social) dimensions of public violence.' - Aishwary Kumar, Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History, Stanford University, USA