Performing Wales : People, Memory and Place
by
Lisa Lewis
Book Details
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
Ksh 3,450.00
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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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