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Hellenic Common : Greek Drama and Cultural Cosmopolitanism in the Neoliberal Era

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Buying Piraeus, owning Greece -- A very brief history of neoliberalism -- McTheatre: Neoliberalism on stage -- Adaptation, theatre, and resistance to neoliberal hegemony -...

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Main Author: Zapkin, Phillip (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group , 2021
Series:Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6646822
E-Book Packages:ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection
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Summary:Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Buying Piraeus, owning Greece -- A very brief history of neoliberalism -- McTheatre: Neoliberalism on stage -- Adaptation, theatre, and resistance to neoliberal hegemony -- The cultural commons -- Chapter summaries -- Conclusion -- 1. Adaptation: Shared cultural myths -- The field of adaptation -- The political economy of adaptation -- Why the Greeks in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? -- Global Greeks? -- Adaptation's cosmopolitan political potential -- Conclusion -- 2. Economic (neo)colonialism: Exploitation makes globalization go 'round -- A global economy -- Economic anti-colonialism: Protest in Femi Osofisan'sWomen of Owu -- Art and culture as survival tools -- The god of profit: Nation building and global economics in Moira Buffini's Welcome to Thebes -- Violence and disaster capitalism -- Politics of disavowal: Neoliberal rhetoric and results -- Conclusion -- 3. …And their families: Neoliberal family and the dissolution of the social -- Family and the neoliberal paradox -- Competing models of family in Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats -- Contradictions to neoliberal ideals: Travellers and domestic labor -- Breaking down society, building society through theatre -- Conclusion -- 4. Korinthiazomai: Rewriting desire and perverse enjoyment -- The psychology of neoliberalism -- New plays from old fragments -- Commodified society: Sex, religion, and family -- Alcmaeon's symptom -- Creon's obsession -- God from the law -- Conclusion -- 5. Ubuntu: Building a common world -- Cosmopolitan ethics -- Molora and its classical intertexts -- Molora and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- African languages and performance forms -- The humane power of the Xhosa Chorus -- Conclusion.
Conclusion:Buying Greece: Or, you get what you pay for -- Theatre takes on culture -- Theatre takes on capitalism -- Index.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (174 pages)
ISBN:9781000431353