The Theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-83856-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre

The Theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous is the first book in English to provide a clear sense of the significance and complexity of Wannous' life and work. It is unique in bringing cross-disciplinary scholarship on Wannous together and aligning it with cultural practice and memory by including contributions from leading academics as well as renowned cultural figures from the Arab world. This volume should be of interest to literary and theatre studies scholars, cultural historians, theatre practitioners and anyone who cares about contemporary theatre, Syria and the Arab world. Collectively, the contributions demonstrate the role of cultural production - especially dramatic literature - in providing a portrait of and shaping a culture in the throes of profound transformation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mejcher-Atassi, Sonja

Myers, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Robert Myers and Sonja Mejcher-Atassi; Part I. Situating Wannous: 1. Wannous, Syrian and world drama Marvin Carlson; 2. Wannous and Brecht: The Playwright as Political Activist Robert Myers and Nada Saab; Part II. Reading Wannous: 3. Keeping Silent, or the Silence that Kept Wannous Zeina G. Halabi; 4. The Failure of Revolutionary Humanism: Reading Wannous with Fanon Friederike Pannewick; 5. Historiography as Resistance in the Later Plays of Wannous Edward Ziter; Part III. Staging Wannous: 6. Rituals Transformed: Wannous, Intercultural Translation, and the Widening Gyre Margaret Litvin; 7. Speaking the Unspeakable: On Directing Wannous Sahar Assaf; 8. Conversation with Contemporary Playwright Mohammad Al Attar Mohammad Al-Attar; Part IV. Remembering Wannous; 9. Unpacking Wannous' Library Sonja Mejcher-Atassi; 10. A Student of Theatre in Paris Farouk Mardam-Bey; 11. Grammar of Life and Death Elias Khoury; 12. Be What You Want to Be Dima Wannous.

Über Autor(innen)

Myers, Robert
Robert Myers is Professor of English and Director of the Alwaleed Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of over fifteen plays, including Atwater: Fixin' to Die, Mesopotamia and Unmanned (adapted as Drone Pilots for BBC's Radio 4), which have been produced at major theatres in New York, Chicago, Washington, and Los Angeles. He is the co-editor/co-translator with Nada Saab of Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant (2018) and Sentence to Hope: A Sa'dallah Wannous Reader (2019). He has received grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the Mellon Foundation and two Fulbright awards.

Mejcher-Atassi, Sonja
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is an Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Department of English at the American University of Beirut. Her research centers on modern Arabic literature, writers' biographies and libraries, book culture, archival and museum studies, cultural history and memory, and aesthetics and politics. Her publications include Rafa Nasiri: Artist Books (2016; ed. with May Muzaffar), Reading across Modern Arabic Literature and Art (2012), Archives, Museums, and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World (2012; ed. with John Pedro Schwartz), and Writing a 'Tool for Change': 'Abd al-Rahman Munif Remembered (2007; ed.).