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Research Article| May 01 2018 Us and Them: Nationalism Staged Andrea Tompa Andrea Tompa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Theater (2018) 48 (2): 47–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/01610775-4352722 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Andrea Tompa; Us and Them: Nationalism Staged. Theater 1 May 2018; 48 (2): 47–63. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01610775-4352722 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsTheater Search Advanced Search Andrea Tompa traces how rising state nationalism has manifested in contemporary Eastern European performance. She contends that “consensus” art constructs national identities through dualistic roles of “us” against “the threatening Other” and national histories stripped of their ambiguities—soaked in the aesthetics of folklore, kitsch, and spectacle. Tompa suggests that “less hierarchical forms of performance, such as postdramatic theater” hold the potential to upset these dominant single narratives with multiviewpoint art, including “forum theater, reenactment, and documentary plays.” “Subversion” through exaggerated “overidentification with nationalistic rhetoric” offers another potential counteraesthetic. nationalism, Romania, Hungary, kitsch, folklore, Eastern Europe, performance, postdramatic theater, reenactment, forum theater, subversion The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2018 Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre2018 You do not currently have access to this content.
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