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The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration

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Editors:
  1. Yana Meerzon

    1. Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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  2. S.E Wilmer

    1. School of Drama, Film, and Music, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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  • Surveys theatre and performance practices related to the experience of global migration
  • Asks difficult questions about race, indigeneity, climate change, forced displacement and migration
  • Positions the urgent conversation about global movement within its different histories and practices

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About this book

The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration provides a wide survey of theatre and performance practices related to the experience of global movements, both in historical and contemporary contexts. Given the largest number of people ever (over one hundred million) suffering from forced displacement today, much of the book centres around the topic of refuge and exile and the role of theatre in addressing these issues. The book is structured in six sections, the first of which is dedicated to the major theoretical concepts related to the field of theatre and migration including exile, refuge, displacement, asylum seeking, colonialism, human rights, globalization, and nomadism. The subsequent sections are devoted to several dozen case studies across various geographies and time periods that highlight, describe and analyse different theatre practices related to migration. The volume serves as a prestigious reference work to help theatre practitioners, students, scholars, andeducators navigate the complex field of theatre and migration. 

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Table of contents (60 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Theatre and Migration: Defining the Field

    • Yana Meerzon, S. E. Wilmer
    Pages 1-27

  3. Theatre and Migration: Themes and Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. The Eternal Immigrant and the Aesthetics of Solidarity

      • Silvija Jestrović
      Pages 31-42

    3. ‘A Real State of Exception’: Walter Benjamin and the Paradox of Theatrical Representation

      • Freddie Rokem
      Pages 43-54

    4. Theatre as Refrain: Representations of Departure from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto

      • Lisa Peschel
      Pages 55-65

    5. Refugees and the Right to Have Rights

      • S. E. Wilmer
      Pages 67-78

    6. Postmigrant Theatre and Its Impact on Contemporary German Theatre

      • Azadeh Sharifi
      Pages 79-90

    7. Interculturalism and Migration in Performance: From Distant Otherness to the Precarity of Proximity

      • Brian Singleton
      Pages 91-101

    8. Cosmopolitanism: The Troublesome Offset of Global Migration

      • Yana Meerzon, Julija Pešić
      Pages 103-114

    9. Indigenous Migrations: Performance, Urbanization, and Survivance in Native North America

      • Sara Pillatzki-Warzeha, Margaret Werry
      Pages 115-129

    10. Migratory Blackness in Leave Taking and Elmina’s Kitchen

      • Harvey Young
      Pages 131-141

    11. Climate Migration and Performance

      • Paul Rae
      Pages 143-155

    12. Theatre’s Digital Migration

      • Matthew Causey
      Pages 157-167

  4. Early Representations of Migration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Theatre and Migration in Gilgamesh

      • Martin Worthington
      Pages 171-181

    3. Migration and Ancient Indian Theatre

      • H. S. Shivaprakash, J. Sreenivasa Murthy
      Pages 183-194

    4. Fated Arrivals: Greek Tragedy and Migration

      • Rush Rehm
      Pages 195-206

    5. Migration in Greek and Roman Comedy

      • C. W. Marshall
      Pages 207-218

    6. Migrating Souls and Witnessing Travellers in the Dramaturgy of Nō Theatre

      • Miki Iwata
      Pages 219-228
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Reviews

“The Handbook of Theatre and Migration is a timely intervention into one of the most pressing issues of our contemporary world. Global in approach, this comprehensive and engaging book is the perfect place to start for anyone interested in knowing more about performance, theatre, migration, transnational, and diaspora studies. With contributors coming from an impressive range of backgrounds, experiences, and disciplines, there is much here too for those familiar with these areas. I am in no doubt that It will prove to be an essential reference work for years to come.” (Professor David Dean, Department of History, Carleton University)

“Superbly researched, this book constitutes a timely contribution to theatre scholarship, particularly as migration has become such a fraught political issue in Europe since 2015. Through its “multi-perspectival” structure, Meerzon and Wilmer’s volume moves beyond a strictly Euro-American understanding of migration to include studies of performance in such regions as Argentina, Japan, Australia, the Middle-East, India, Korea, and the Pacific. A truly indispensable companion for all scholars seeking to grasp the multi-faceted ways in which performance translates the phenomenon of migration in our changing democracies.” (Marc Maufort, Université libre de Bruxelles)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Yana Meerzon

  • School of Drama, Film, and Music, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    S.E Wilmer

About the editors

Yana Meerzon is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of three books, most recently Performance, Subjectivity, Cosmopolitanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Yana has also served as co-editor on 7 edited collections, including Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

S. E. Wilmer is Professor Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and has written or edited 20 books. He co-edited ‘Theatre and Statelessness in Europe’ for Critical Stages in 2016. His latest books are Performing Statelessness in Europe (2018) and Life in the Posthuman Condition (2023). 




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