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by Bishnupriya Dutt (Editor), Silvija Jestrovic (Editor)
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.
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Drawing from both past and present and using the interdisciplinary hermeneutics of theatre, politics, and performance, this collection explores how to do activism, make theatre, and be in the world through the Leftist paradigms and ethos, and asks what are the political, cultural, personal, and collective dramaturgies through which to recuperate the Leftist care for commons for our time?
The Left is framed here as an umbrella term for a range of progressive cultural and political practices. The focus on plural cultural Lefts draws attention to the different histories and to the dialectics between official and unofficial Lefts - amidst both the totalising ideological framework and its smaller-scale manifestations. The conceptual focus is on the dialectics of the macro- and the micro-plane of the Leftist histories, legacies, and current forms of resistance as they occur through different dramaturgies of activism, but also through theatre and everyday life. In our times of political confusion - when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated by Right - the necessity of recovering the Leftist ethos of solidarity, social justice, and care for the commons seems more urgent than ever. The book questions how to grapple with the complexities of the Left: its theatres and theatricalities, its modes of activism, its subjects and subjectivities?Author Biography
Bishnupriya Dutt is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Silvija Jestrovic is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick
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by Bishnupriya Dutt (Editor), Silvija Jestrovic (Editor)
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.
Back Jacket
Drawing from both past and present and using the interdisciplinary hermeneutics of theatre, politics, and performance, this collection explores how to do activism, make theatre, and be in the world through the Leftist paradigms and ethos, and asks what are the political, cultural, personal, and collective dramaturgies through which to recuperate the Leftist care for commons for our time?
The Left is framed here as an umbrella term for a range of progressive cultural and political practices. The focus on plural cultural Lefts draws attention to the different histories and to the dialectics between official and unofficial Lefts - amidst both the totalising ideological framework and its smaller-scale manifestations. The conceptual focus is on the dialectics of the macro- and the micro-plane of the Leftist histories, legacies, and current forms of resistance as they occur through different dramaturgies of activism, but also through theatre and everyday life. In our times of political confusion - when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated by Right - the necessity of recovering the Leftist ethos of solidarity, social justice, and care for the commons seems more urgent than ever. The book questions how to grapple with the complexities of the Left: its theatres and theatricalities, its modes of activism, its subjects and subjectivities?Author Biography
Bishnupriya Dutt is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Silvija Jestrovic is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick
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