Staging History from the Shoah to Palestine: Three Plays and Essays on WWII and Its Aftermath

ISBN-13: 9783030840112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Inez Hedges

Opis

This book is a contribution to the emerging field of research-based performance, which seeks to gain a wider audience for issues that are crucial to our understanding of history and to informing our future actions. The book examines the role of theater in portraying the Shoah in France, the French Resistance, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each of the three chapters consists of an original dramatic work by the author and an accompanying critical essay.

Spis treści

1. Chapter One: Introduction.- 2. Chapter Two: Staging the Shoah: The Persecution of Jews in France under German Occupation.- 3. Play: “Children of Drancy”.-  4. Chapter Three: Theatre of and about the German Occupation of France and the French Resistance, 1940-1944.-  5. Play: “The Eagle and the Cactus”.-  6. Chapter Four: Theatre of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.- 7. Play: “Kafka in Palestine”.

O autorze

Inez Hedges is Emerita Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Her play “Children of Drancy” was performed in 2007 as part of an advanced undergraduate learning community. She wrote “Kafka in Palestine” in 2017–19 while a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Waltham. Her previous books include Framing Faust: 20th Century Cultural Struggles (2005); and World Cinema and Cultural Memory (2015).

Blurb

This book is a contribution to the emerging field of research-based performance, which seeks to gain a wider audience for issues that are crucial to our understanding of history and to informing our future actions. The book examines the role of theater in portraying the Shoah in France, the French Resistance, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each of the three chapters consists of an original dramatic work by the author and an accompanying critical essay.

Inez Hedges is Emerita Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Her play “Children of Drancy” was performed in 2007 as part of an advanced undergraduate learning community. She wrote “Kafka in Palestine” in 2017–19 while a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Waltham. Her previous books include Framing Faust: 20th Century Cultural Struggles (2005); and World Cinema and Cultural Memory (2015).