Transcultural Theater

<p><em>Transcultural Theater </em>outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. </p><p>In consideration of the allure of fundamentalist and populist movements that promote the development and practices of xenophobia worldwide, this book makes a powerful plea for the art of theater as a medium of conviviality with (the) foreign(er) that should not be underestimated. This study contributes to transcultural experience, artistic practice, and education in the medium of theater. The book’s investigation extends far into space and time and pays particular attention to the relationship between aesthetic experience, artistic practice, and academic representation. </p><p>This book is for scholars and students as well as for all those working in the cultural field, especially in the field of cultural transfer.</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Part I: The Idea of Transcultural Theater </p><p>Chapter 1. In Becoming</p><p>Beyond Our Grasp</p><p>Theory, Experience, Idea </p><p>Theater-thinking </p><p>Writing Transcultural Theater </p><p>Brecht and Transcultural Theater</p><p>Chapter 2. The Topicality of Transcultural Theater </p><p>Time for Theater </p><p>Historical Constellation: Globalization and Fundamentalism</p><p>Chapter 3. Theatrical Imaginings </p><p>Globalization’s Theater of Images: The Situation Room </p><p>The Phantasmic Theater of Fundamentalism: PEGIDA</p><p>Chapter 4. Strangeness as the Site of Transcultural Theater</p><p>The Fascination with Faraway Strangeness: Artaud and Balinese Theater </p><p>Critique of Intercultural Theater </p><p>Reciprocal Exposure and the Appropriation of Cultural Traditions </p><p>Discovering Strangeness in Ownness </p><p>The Precarious Status of the Migrant</p><p>Chapter 5. Transit Existence </p><p>Turning Toward History: Reflecting Historically upon Cultural History </p><p>The Raft of the Medusa </p><p>Ghosts in Transit: Frank Castorf’s <i>Dämonen</i> </p><p>Brecht’s Migrant Writing</p><p>Part II: The World Space of Transcultural Theater</p><p>Chapter 6. The Theater of Becoming-World </p><p>Globalization and <i>mondialisation</i> </p><p>The Absence of Ground: The Groundless Motion of Transcultural Theater </p><p>"Theater can be the ship itself." Schiller: <i>Seestücke </i>[<i>Sea Plays</i>] </p><p>At the Back of Globalization</p><p>Chapter 7. The Ptolemaic Theater of the World</p><p>The Theology of the Ptolemaic Theater of the World </p><p>The Copernican Revolution </p><p>Chapter 8. The Theater of World Experience</p><p>World Experience as Theater Experience: <i>Fatzer 2</i> </p><p>Experiencing the World of Things: The Primacy of the Object and the Narcissistic Wound </p><p>Experiencing the World Transmedially: <i>Situation Rooms</i> </p><p>Experiencing the World in a Historical Echo Chamber</p><p>Part III: The Practice of Transcultural Theater</p><p>Chapter 9. The Turn to History</p><p>The Twofold Invocation of History </p><p>History as the Theater of Repetition</p><p>Chapter 10. The Rise and Fall of the Phantasm of National Culture</p><p>The Story of Origin of National Culture </p><p>The Symbolic Space and Body of the National Theater </p><p>The Spectral Return of the Past </p><p>Demolishing the Mausoleums of National Culture</p><p>Chapter 11. Repetition as the Action of Transcultural Theater</p><p>The Scene of Repetition: Brecht </p><p>Repetition and Border-crossing: Wolfram Höll’s <i>Und dann</i> </p><p>The Space-time of Repetition: Søren Kierkegaard’s <i>Repetition</i></p><p>Theater of Repetition: Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s <i>Life & Times</i></p><p>Chapter 12. Revolution in the Caribbean: The Practice of Transcultural Inflection</p><p>Chapter 13. The Gesture as the Actor of Transcultural Theater </p><p>The Gesture’s Movement between Times and Spaces </p><p>The Pathos of the Gesture between Life and Death </p><p>The Futurity of the Gesture: Franz Kafka’s Nature Theater of Oklahoma </p><p>Chapter 14. Transcultural Theater as a Powerhouse of Emotion</p><p>The Power of Emotions</p><p>Separating, Dividing, Affect</p><p>The Stage of Transcultural Opening </p><p>Index</p>