Performing Remembering

Combines performance-centred ethnographic and oral history methods Builds upon theory from an array of disciplines including performance and theatre studies, memory studies, oral history, postcolonial studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and Vietnamese/Southeast Asian studies Focuses on the little-known wartime histories and present-day lives of Vietnamese communist women veterans

Autorentext

Rivka Syd Eisner is Postdoctoral Researcher at the URPP Asia and Europe at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her writing has appeared in TDR: The Drama Review, Performance Research, Cultural Studies, Theatre Research International, and in edited volumes. She is co-editor of Re-Enacting the Past: Heritage, Materiality and Performance (2016).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: (Re)Performing the Past in Vietnam.- 2. Performing Survival, Ancestral Inheritance, and the Spirit of Optimism.- 3. Masquerading, (Re)Making Identities, and Familial Commemorations.- 4. Remembering Torture, Returning to Côn o, and the Tradition of Pain-Taking.- 5. Answering to Transgenerational Violence.