Title Performance, space, utopia : cities of war, cities of exile / Silvija Jestrovic

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Series Studies in international performance Studies in international performance Contents 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 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 became 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 "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 became 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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index Subject Theater -- Political aspects -- Serbia -- Belgrade -- History -- 20th century Theater -- Political aspects -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo -- History -- 20th century Theatre studies. Street theatre. PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism. Performing Arts. Theater -- Political aspects Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo Serbia -- Belgrade Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137291677 1137291672 1283867710 9781283867719

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