TY  - BOOK
AU  - de Waal,Ariane
TI  - Theatre on Terror: Subject Positions in British Drama 
T2  - Contemporary Drama in English Studies ,
SN  - 9783110515121
AV  - PR741 .W33 2017
U1  - 290 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - English drama
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Terror in art
KW  - Britisches Gegenwartstheater
KW  - Elfter September
KW  - Terror
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 9/11
KW  - Contemporary British Theatre
KW  - Drama
KW  - Subject Positions
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Theoretical Framework --; 3. Home-Front Plays: Subject Positions in the British Terror City --; 4. Front-Line Plays: Positioning ‘Self’, ‘Other’, and Other Selves in Iraq and Afghanistan --; 5. Conclusion --; Works Cited --; General Index --; Index of Plays; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In a moment of intense uncertainty surrounding the means, ends, and limits of (countering) terrorism, this study approaches the recent theatres of war through theatrical stagings of terror. Theatre on Terror: Subject Positions in British Drama charts the terrain of contemporary subjectivities both ‘at home’ and ‘on the front line’. Beyond examining the construction and contestation of subject positions in domestic and (sub)urban settings, the book follows border-crossing figures to the shifting battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. What emerges through the analysis of twenty-one plays is not a dichotomy but a dialectics of ‘home’ and ‘front’, where fluid, uncontainable subjects are constantly pushing the contours of conflict. Revising the critical consensus that post-9/11 drama primarily engages with ‘the real’, Ariane de Waal argues that these plays navigate the complexities of the discourse – rather than the historical or social realities – of war and terrorism. British ‘theatre on terror’ negotiates, inflects, and participates in the discursive circulation of stories, idioms, controversies, testimonies, and pieces of (mis)information in the face of global insecurities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110517088
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110517088
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110517088/original
ER  -