[Candrama] NEW PUBLICATION: Performance, Subjectivity, Cosmopolitanism

Yana Meerzon Yana.Meerzon at uOttawa.ca
Fri Aug 21 09:13:41 EDT 2020


Dear colleagues,
Apologies for cross-listing. I hope this title will make into your libraries' catalogues:

Performance, Subjectivity, Cosmopolitanism (Palgrave 2020). By Yana Meerzon<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030414092>
This book looks at the connection between contemporary theatre practices and cosmopolitanism, a philosophical condition of social behaviour based on our responsibility, respect, and healthy curiosity to the other. Advocating for cosmopolitanism has become a necessity in a world defined by global wars, mass migration, and rise of nationalism. Using empathy, affect, and telling personal stories of displacement through embodied encounter between the actor and their audience, performance arts can serve as a training ground for this social behavior. In the centre of this encounter is a new cosmopolitan: a person of divided origins and cultural heritage, someone who speaks many languages and claims different countries as their place of belonging. The book examines how European and North American theatres stage this divided subjectivity: both from within, the way we tell stories about ourselves to others, and from without, through the stories the others tell about us.

Yana Meerzon. Ph.D.<https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/270>

Professeure , Département de théâtre

Professor, Department of Theatre

135 Séraphin-Marion, uOttawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5

President CATR/ACRT <https://catracrt.ca/>
Performance, Subjectivity, Cosmopolitanism (Palgrave 2020)<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030414092>
Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture (Palgrave 2020), Editors: Meerzon, Yana, Dean, David, McNeil, Daniel <https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030399146>
Editor. Critical Stages/Scènes critiques<http://www.critical-stages.org/19/the-essay-section-la-section-des-essais/>

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