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Choreographing the Global in European Cinema and TheaterConclusion

Choreographing the Global in European Cinema and Theater: Conclusion [I have devoted much of my professional life to thinking and writing about the ways in which the theatrical institution has for a very long time excluded or marginalized women and feminists as well as those considered alien to the German nation. In my first book, conceptualized in the 1980s, I set out to re-evaluate the work of German women playwrights, impresarios, and performers as feminist interventions in the canon and in ostensibly gender-blind notions of the political, recuperating, among other things, subjective, lyrical, body-centered performance practices. Later, prompted by the upheavals of reunification and its aftermath, I studied the sublation of racial discourses in postwar West German culture, which since the 1960s has revolved around the project of “coming to terms with the past”—largely to the exclusion of Jews, Turks, and other resident minorities that clearly have a stake in this collective undertaking. “Ethnic drag” was the name I found for that curious void at the center of a discourse that purported to empathize with, while simultaneously displacing, the Other. And yet, as I kept returning to Berlin, where I also lived from 2001 to 2002, the low-level unrest attending the country’s postindustrial restructuring combined with the unprecedented growth and concentration of media corporations on the continent (some, like Silvio Berlusconi’s international empire Mediaset and the Russian Gazprom’s NTV, with direct ties to government) and the fierce protests of theaters against downsizing and defunding alerted me to the specific impact of globalization on old European welfare states at a time when notions of the public and of civil society, where these far-reaching transformations could be discussed, were clearly changing.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
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978-1-349-37498-4
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179 –181
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10.1057/9780230615458_6
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[I have devoted much of my professional life to thinking and writing about the ways in which the theatrical institution has for a very long time excluded or marginalized women and feminists as well as those considered alien to the German nation. In my first book, conceptualized in the 1980s, I set out to re-evaluate the work of German women playwrights, impresarios, and performers as feminist interventions in the canon and in ostensibly gender-blind notions of the political, recuperating, among other things, subjective, lyrical, body-centered performance practices. Later, prompted by the upheavals of reunification and its aftermath, I studied the sublation of racial discourses in postwar West German culture, which since the 1960s has revolved around the project of “coming to terms with the past”—largely to the exclusion of Jews, Turks, and other resident minorities that clearly have a stake in this collective undertaking. “Ethnic drag” was the name I found for that curious void at the center of a discourse that purported to empathize with, while simultaneously displacing, the Other. And yet, as I kept returning to Berlin, where I also lived from 2001 to 2002, the low-level unrest attending the country’s postindustrial restructuring combined with the unprecedented growth and concentration of media corporations on the continent (some, like Silvio Berlusconi’s international empire Mediaset and the Russian Gazprom’s NTV, with direct ties to government) and the fierce protests of theaters against downsizing and defunding alerted me to the specific impact of globalization on old European welfare states at a time when notions of the public and of civil society, where these far-reaching transformations could be discussed, were clearly changing.]

Published: Oct 10, 2015

Keywords: German Nation; Creative Economy; European Welfare State; Resident Minority; Racial Discourse

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