Theatre activism subjectivity

Through the lens of performance and politics this collection zooms in on the context-specific dimensions analogies and micro-histories of the Left to better understand the larger picture. It proposes a search for the Left not from totalising Leftist ideological positions and partisan politics but from ethical dimensions through smaller-scale Left-leaning struggles; not from the political to the aesthetic but from the potentiality of art to offer new political imagination and critique; not from the individual subordinated to the collective but from the dialectics of subjectivity and collectivity. This is not an attempt at a sweeping global overview of Leftist cultures either but a collection that brings together culture-specific and comparative perspectives. This book searches for fragments of and on the Left past and present through which to rethink and patch a fragmented world.