The Necropolitical Theater
Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage
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2020
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4186-5 (ISBN)
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4186-5 (ISBN)
Explores how theatrical production in Spain since the early 1990s has reflected national anxieties about immigration and race. Jeffrey Coleman argues that Spain has developed a ""necropolitical theater"" that casts the non-European immigrant as fictionalized enemy - one whose nonwhiteness is incompatible with Spanish national identity.
The Necropolitical Theater: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage demonstrates how theatrical production in Spain since the early 1990s has reflected national anxieties about immigration and race. Jeffrey K. Coleman argues that Spain has developed a "necropolitical theater" that casts the non-European immigrant as fictionalized enemy - one whose nonwhiteness is incompatible with Spanish national identity and therefore poses a threat to the very Europeannes of Spain. The fate of the immigrant in the necropolitical theater is death, either physical or metaphysical, which preserves the status quo and provides catharsis for the spectator faced with the notion of racial diversity. Marginalization, forced assimilation, and physical death are outcomes suffered by Latin American, North African, and sub-Saharan African characters, respectively, and in these differential outcomes determined by skin color Coleman identifies an inherent racial hierarchy informed by the legacies of colonization and religious intolerance.
Drawing on theatrical texts, performances, legal documents, interviews, and critical reviews, this book challenges Spanish theater to develop a new theatrical space. Jeffrey K. Coleman proposes a "convivial theater" that portrays immigrants as contributors to the Spanish state and better represents the multicultural reality of the nation today.
The Necropolitical Theater: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage demonstrates how theatrical production in Spain since the early 1990s has reflected national anxieties about immigration and race. Jeffrey K. Coleman argues that Spain has developed a "necropolitical theater" that casts the non-European immigrant as fictionalized enemy - one whose nonwhiteness is incompatible with Spanish national identity and therefore poses a threat to the very Europeannes of Spain. The fate of the immigrant in the necropolitical theater is death, either physical or metaphysical, which preserves the status quo and provides catharsis for the spectator faced with the notion of racial diversity. Marginalization, forced assimilation, and physical death are outcomes suffered by Latin American, North African, and sub-Saharan African characters, respectively, and in these differential outcomes determined by skin color Coleman identifies an inherent racial hierarchy informed by the legacies of colonization and religious intolerance.
Drawing on theatrical texts, performances, legal documents, interviews, and critical reviews, this book challenges Spanish theater to develop a new theatrical space. Jeffrey K. Coleman proposes a "convivial theater" that portrays immigrants as contributors to the Spanish state and better represents the multicultural reality of the nation today.
Jeffrey K. Coleman is an assistant professor of Spanish at Marquette University.
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Formation of the Necropolitical Theater
Chapter One - Are You Being Served?: Latin American Female Migrants and Neocolonial Servitude
Chapter Two - The Second Reconquista: Maurophobia and the Impossibility of North African Migrants in Spain Chapter Three - En Route to Death: Spanish Necropolitical Theater and the Precarity of Black Immigration Conclusion: The Necropolitical Theater of Whiteness
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2020 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Evanston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 633 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8101-4186-8 / 0810141868 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8101-4186-5 / 9780810141865 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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