Theatre in the Context of the Yugoslav Wars

ISBN-13: 9783030403553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 339 str.

Jana Dolečki; Senad Halilbasic; Stefan Hulfeld

Spis treści

1. Introduction.- 2. Testimony: Borka PAVICEVIC.- 3. Irena SENTEVSKA: Stages of Denial: State-funded Theatres in Serbia and the Yugoslav Wars.- 4. Senad HALILBASIC: Bosnia and Herzegovina's National Theatres in the Context of Language Politics During the War.- 5. Testimony: Amela KRESO.- 6. Jeton NEZIRAJ: Theatre as Resistance. The Dodona Theatre in Kosovo.- 7. Ksenija RADULOVIC: War Discourse on Institutional Stages: Serbian Theatre 1991-1995.- 8. Jana DOLECKI: Theatre on the Front Lines: Ad Hoc Cabaret in Croatia, 1991-1992.- 9. Lada CALE FELDMAN: Within and Beyond Theatre: President Tu man's Birthday Celebration at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb .- 10. Testimony: Snjezana BANOVIC.- 11. Milena DRAGICEVIC SESIC: Culture of Dissent, Art of Rebellion: The Psychiatric Hospital as a Theatre Stage in the Work of Zorica Jevremovic.- 12. Ana DEVIC: Theatre of Diversity and Avant-Garde in Late Socialist Yugoslavia and Beyond: Paradoxes of the Disintegration and Cultural Subversion.- 13. Testimony: Borut SEPAROVIC.- 14. Barbara OREL: The Theatre Exchange between Slovenia and the Republics of Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.- 15. Branislav JAKOVLJEVIC: Peter Handke's River Journeys: Fording the Stream of Conscience.- 16. Testimony: Nihad KRESEVLJAKOVIC.- 17. Darko LUKIC: Strategies for Challenging Official Mythologies in War Trauma Plays: The Croatian Playwright Ivan Vidic.- 18. Aleksandra JOVICEVIC: Postmodern Antigones: Women in Black and the Performance of Involuntary Memory.- 19. Testimony: Dino MUSTAFIC.

O autorze

Jana Dolecki is a PhD candidate at the Department for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her current research focuses on wartime theatre in Croatia and Serbia.
Senad Halilbasic is a University Assistant and PhD candidate at the Department for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on theatre during the Bosnian war. Previous publications include the co-edited volume Bibliothek Sarajevo: Literarische Vermessung einer Stadt (2012).
Stefan Hulfeld is Professor of Theatre and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. His current research agendas focus on theatre historiography and theory. Publications include the chapters 'Modernist Theatre' in The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History (2013) and 'Antitheatrical thinking and the rise of "theatre"' in A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern Age (2017).