Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction: Cities of Memory

   • Des O’Rawe, Mark Phelan

   Pages 1-11

3. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Paradoxes and Parapraxes: On (the Limits of) Cinematic Representation in Post-Conflict Situations

      • Thomas Elsaesser

      Pages 15-36

   3. A Ruin in Slow Motion: The Case of Berlin

      • Miriam Paeslack

      Pages 37-55

   4. Puppy Love: The Reincarnation of Bilbao

      • Rob Stone

      Pages 57-75

   5. Performing Reconciliation: Milan and the Memory of Piazza Fontana

      • Elena Caoduro

      Pages 77-94

   6. Public Memory in Post-Conflict Skopje: Civic Art as Resistance to Narratives of Ethnicity and Disintegration

      • Zoran Poposki, Marija Todorova

      Pages 95-112

   7. Voyage(s) to Sarajevo: Godard and the War of Images

      • Des O’Rawe

      Pages 113-126

4. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Lost Lives: Performance, Remembrance, Belfast

      • Mark Phelan

      Pages 129-155

   3. ‘It Will Bury Its Past, It Will Paper Over the Cracks’: John Duncan’s Trees From Germany

      • Emma Grey

      Pages 157-168

   4. City of Culture/Memory: Derry-Londonderry, 2013

      • Paul Devlin

      Pages 169-192

   5. Panopticonicity: Sites of Control and the Failure of Forgetting in Willie Doherty’s Re-Run (2002) and Drive (2003)

      • Paula Blair

      Pages 193-209

5. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Inner Cities: William Kentridge and the Landscapes of Memory

      • Jane Taylor

      Pages 213-231

   3. The Tunisian Revolution and After in the Work of Jalila Baccar and Fadhel Jaïbi

      • Marvin Carlson

      Pages 233-249

   4. ‘Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws’: Community Response to Harare Theatre as a Tool of Peace-Building

      • Laurel Borisenko

      Pages 251-264

   5. Memory and Artistic Production in a Post-War Arab City

      • Katarzyna Puzon

      Pages 265-283

6. Back Matter

   Pages 285-314

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Drawing on a range of cities and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the collection explores the post-conflict condition as it is lived and expressed in modern cities such as Berlin, Belfast, Bilbao, Beirut, Derry, Skopje, Sarajevo, Tunis, Johannesburg and Harare. Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory investigates how the memory of conflict can be inscribed in historical monuments, human bodies and hermeneutic acts of mapping, traversing, representing, and performing the city. Several essays explore the relations between memory, history and urban space; where memory is located and how it is narrated, as well as various aspects of embodied memory; testimonial memory; traumatic memory; counter-memory; false memory; post-memory. Other essays examine the representations of post-war cities and how cultural imaginations relate to the politics of reconstruction in places devastated by protracted urban warfare. Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory offers a comparative survey of the complex and often controversial encounters between public art, political memory and commemoration in divided societies, as well as offering insights into the political and ethical difficulties of balancing the dynamics of forgetting and remembering.

• theatre
• transformation
• politics
• war
• remembrance
• forgiveness
• urban regeneration
• civil war
• Arab Spring
• The Troubles
• post-apartheid
• South Africa
• Bosnia
• Years of Lead
• city of culture
• Lebanon
• Palast der Republik
• Skopje
• commemoration
• memory studies

• School of Creative Arts, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

  Des O'Rawe

• School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

  Mark Phelan

Des O’Rawe lectures in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has published on various aspects of cinema aesthetics and is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of film and visual culture. His book, Regarding the Real: Cinema, Documentary, and the Visual Arts, publishes in 2016.

Mark Phelan lectures in Drama at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has published widely on Irish theatre and performance with articles in Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama. Presently, his research is concerned with role that the arts - specifically theatre and performance - 'play' in ongoing processes of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland.

 

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