Performing Wales : People, Memory and Place

Name: Performing Wales
Brand: University of Wales Press
SKU: 9781786832429
Price: 3450 KES
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ISBN: 9781786832429

by Lisa Lewis

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1786832429

ISBN-13 9781786832429

Publisher University of Wales Press

Imprint University of Wales Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 15th, 2018

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 430 grams

Dimensions 13.90 x 21.70 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Theatre studies Theatre studies

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This book uses ideas from performance studies to examine Welsh culture as performance. Focusing on three aspects central to the investigation – notions of people, memory and place, all of which are central to definitions of Welsh cultural performance – the book explores these aspects in relation to specific case studies taken from the museum, from heritage, festival, and theatre.

Combining ideas from the field of performance studies with examples of Welsh culture that can be analysed in terms of performance—the museum, heritage, festival and theater—this book explores the way in which such cultural performances contribute to a shared sense of identity among participants. The discussion locates performance as a general and unifying function of Welsh culture, one that both reveals and sustains distinct relationships between people, memory and place. In arguing that the performative drive in Welsh culture, or performance as poiesis (as cultural construction), is responsible for the creative scope of Welsh culture, the discussion examines how performance in specific contexts mediates questions of identity, how it reveals reflections of ourselves, and how it constitutes our remembrances of others and of history.

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