(Re)Building a Museum, (Re)Worlding a Nation, (Re)Writing History
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Published:2023-09
Issue:3
Volume:67
Page:122-150
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ISSN:1054-2043
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Container-title:TDR: The Drama Review
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language:en
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Short-container-title:TDR: Drama Rev
Author:
Fakhrkonandeh Alireza
Abstract
The premiere of Hannah Khalil’s A Museum in Baghdad (2019) marks a critical juncture in the history of contemporary British drama. The play is informed by a decolonial dynamic, a longue durée vision, and an evental mode of memory; and renders the museum as a multivalent allegorical space. The complicities of culture, imperialism, and resource extractivism are revealed.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts