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Auteur(s) : Pine, Emilie
Titre(s) : The memory marketplace [Texte imprimé] : witnessing pain in contemporary Irish and international theatre / Emilie Pine
Publication : Bloomington (Ind.) : Indiana University Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-247 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : Irish culture, memory, place
Lien à la collection : Irish culture, memory, and place
Note(s) : Index
"What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The
Memory Marketplace, Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and
abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends
with its own culture and history. Analyzing examples from this realm of theatre, Pine
focuses on the idea of witnesses, both as performers on stage and as members of the
audience. Whose memories are observed in these transactions, and how and why do performances
prioritize some memories over others? What does it mean to create, rehearse, perform,
and purchase the theatricalization of memory? The Memory Marketplace shows this transaction
to be particularly fraught in the theatricalization of traumatic moments of cultural
upheaval, such as the child sexual abuse scandal in Ireland. In these performances,
the role of empathy becomes key within the marketplace dynamic, and Pine argues that
this empathy shapes the kinds of witnesses created. The complexities and nuances of
this exchange-subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified-provide
a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding
of trauma, memory, and history"
Sujet(s) : Théâtre et société -- Irlande -- Histoire -- 2000-....
Théâtre (genre littéraire) -- Société -- Irlande
Douleur -- Dans la littérature
Traumatisme psychique -- Dans la littérature
Mémoire collective -- Dans la littérature
Indice(s) Dewey :
792.094 15 (23e éd.) =
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-253-04952-0 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46976552c
Notice n° :
FRBNF46976552
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: The Market for Pain ; Tell Them That You Saw Us: Witnessing Docu-verbatim
Memory ; The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory ; The Commissioned Witness,
Theatre, and Truth ; The Immaterial Labor of Listening: Presence, Absence, Failure,
and the Commodification of the Witness ; Consumers or Witnesses: Site-Specific Performance
; Conclusion: Activism in the Marketplace.
