Through the lens of performance and politics, this collection zooms in on the context-specific dimensions, analogies, and micro-histories of the Left to better understand the larger picture. It proposes a search for the Left not from totalising Leftist ideological positions and partisan politics but from ethical dimensions through smaller-scale Left-leaning struggles; not from the political to the aesthetic, but from the potentiality of art to offer new political imagination and critique; not from the individual subordinated to the collective, but from the dialectics of subjectivity and collectivity. This is not an attempt at a sweeping global overview of Leftist cultures either, but a collection that brings together culture-specific and comparative perspectives. This book searches for fragments of and on the Left, past and present, through which to rethink and patch a fragmented world.
| ISBN: | 9781526178565 |
| Publication date: | 23rd July 2024 |
| Author: | Bishnupriya Dutt, Silvija Jestrovic |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Theatre. Theory, Practice, Performance |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Theatre direction and production Political control and freedoms |