Post-Imperial Brecht : Politics and Performance, East and South
by
Loren Kruger
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
ISBN-10
0521036577
ISBN-13
9780521036573
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 14th, 2007
Print length
416 Pages
Weight
628 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.30 x 1.90 cms
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Post-Imperial Brecht challenges prevailing views of Brecht's theatre and politics. Loren Kruger focuses much of her analysis in regions of special resonance, including East Germany and South Africa. The book includes interpretations of Brecht in light of dramatists and writers, including Heiner Müller, Fugard, and Adorno.
Post-Imperial Brecht challenges prevailing views of Brecht's theatre and politics. Most political theatre critics place Brecht between West and East in the Cold War, and a few have recently explored Brecht's impact as a Northern writer on the global South. Loren Kruger is the first to argue that Brecht's impact as a political dramatist, director and theoretical writer makes full sense only when seen in a post-imperial framework that links the East/West axis between US capitalism and Soviet communism with the North/South axis of postcolonial resistance to imperialism. This framework highlights Brecht's arguments with theorists like Benjamin, Bloch, and Lukacs. It also shows surprising connections between socialist East Germany, where Brecht's 1950s projects impressed the emerging Heiner Muller, and apartheid-era South Africa, where his work appeared on the apartheid as well as anti-apartheid stage.
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