Performance in a time of terror: Critical mimesis and the age of uncertainty

By Jenny Hughes

Book Overview

This book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719085306
• ISBN13: 9780719085307
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"