Subversive Stages: Theater in Pre- and Post-Communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria - Hardcover

Orlich, Ileana Alexandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9633861160 ISBN 13: 9789633861165

Verlag: Central European University Press, 2017

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Reseña del editor

Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or "inter-theatricality" as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time trying to circumvent censorship. In the Soviet bloc the theater of the absurd, experimentation, irony, and intertextual distancing (estrangement) were much more than mere aesthetic language games, but were planned political strategies that used indirection to say what could not be said directly. Plays by Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian dramatists are examined, who are "retrofitting" the past by adapting the political crimes and horrifying tactics of totalitarianism to the classical theatre (with Shakespeare a favorite) to reveal the region's traumatic history. By the sustained analysis of the aesthetic devices used as political tools, Orlich makes a very strong case for the continued relevance of the theater as one of the subtlest media in the public sphere. She embeds her close readings in a thorough historical analysis and displays a profound knowledge of the political role of theater history.

Biografía del autor

Ileana Alexandra Orlich is President's Professor of Romanian, English and Comparative Literature, Director of Romanian Studies Program, Head of German, Romanian & Slavic Faculty in the School of International Languages and Cultures (SILC), at Arizona State University (ASU)

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Central European University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 9633861160
• ISBN 13: 9789633861165
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238