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Staging class conflict in the UK / Liz Tomlin

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Cambridge elements. Elements in theatre, performance and the politicalPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025Copyright date: ©2025Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:
  • 9781009394222
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781009598613 | Erscheint auch als: 9781009598613 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 792.0941 23/eng/20250315
LOC classification:
  • PN2049
Online resources: Summary: This Element focuses on the frequent staging of the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry, academy and audiences that are dominated by the cultural fraction of the middle class. It interrogates the staging of an abjectified figure as a means of challenging the stigmatisation of the poor in political discourse, defined here as an ideological imaginary of moral and cultural deficit. The Element argues that in seeking to subvert such an imaginary, theatre that stages the abjectified subject may risk consolidating two further imaginaries of working class deficit that have been confected in political discourse from the 1990s to the 2020s. In conclusion, the Element reflects on the political potential of theatre that rather seeks to eradicate class descriptors, conflicts and hierarchies altogether. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge CorePPN: PPN: 1922667560Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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