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

1. Verfasser: Zapkin, Philip.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (174 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
Parallelausgabe: Zapkin, Philip, Hellenic Common (Print version:) | ISSN: 9780367536466
Online Zugang: Available online for registrated users of FID
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.

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