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Author Patraka, Vivian.

Title Spectacular suffering : theatre, fascism, and the Holocaust / Vivian M. Patraka
Published Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press ; Amersham : Combined Academic, 1999

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Description x, 159 pages ; 24 cm
Series Unnatural acts
Unnatural acts.
Contents 1. Shattered Cartographies: Fascism, the Holocaust, and Tropes about Representation -- 2. Reproduction, Appropriation, and Binary Machinery: Fascist Ideology and Theatricalization -- 3. Feminism and the Jewish Subject: Holocaust Theatre and the Politics of Difference and Identity -- 4. Realism, Gender, and Historical Crisis: Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine and "Julia" -- 5. Theatre of Injury and Injustice: Staging the Body in Pain -- 6. Spectacular Suffering: Performing Presence, Absence, and Witness at U.S. Holocaust Museums
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-151) and index
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Drama.
Genre/Form Drama.
LC no. 98043476
ISBN 0253335329 cloth alkaline paper
0253212928 pa alkaline paper