| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
cities of war, cities of exile |
| Author: |
JestrovicSilvija, 1970- |
| Place of Publication: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (pages cm.) |
| Series: |
Studies in international performance |
| Subject: |
Theater - Political aspects - Serbia - 20th century. - |
| Subject: |
Theater - Political aspects - Bosnia and Hercegovina - 20th century. - |
| Subject: |
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137291677 |
| Summary: |
The war in the Balkans that took place between 1991-1995 forms the context of this book. It has been variously viewed as ethnic strife, religious conflict, or civil war but seldom has it been described as a war against cities. Belgrade and Sarajevo offer a fascinating comparative case study, not only because the two cities belong to the same historical narrative of the breakdown of Yugoslavia, but because of the ways in which their various performances both complement and contradict one another. This book examines how performance and theatricality beclme modes of being and acting in the city, even strategies of physical and ethical survival; yet so often it is exile, both as marginalisation within and exodus from the city, that emerges as the defining consequence of living in Sarajevo or Belgrade in the 1990s. |
| ISBN: |
9781137291677electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137291672electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
List of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgements Cities of War, Cities of Exile: Introduction PART I: BELGRADE - THE CITY OF SPECTACLE City-as-Action At the Confluence of Utopia and Seduction Epilogue: Endemic Geopathologies Part II: SARAJEVO: IMAGINARIES AND EMBODIMENTS Waiting for Godot: Sarajevo and its Interpretations City-as-Body Theatricality vs. Bare Life Theatre as Ideal City PART III: CITY OF EXILE In the Comfort of Non-Place Bibliography Index. Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgements Cities of War, Cities of Exile: Introduction PART I: BELGRADE THE CITY OF SPECTACLE City-as-Action At the Confluence of Utopia and Seduction Epilogue: Endemic Geopathologies Part II: SARAJEVO: IMAGINARIES AND EMBODIMENTS Waiting for Godot: Sarajevo and its Interpretations City-as-Body Theatricality vs. Bare Life Theatre as Ideal City PART III: CITY OF EXILE In the Comfort of Non-Place Bibliography Index. |