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Contemporary (Post-)Migrant Theatre in Belgium and the Migratory Aesthetics of Milo Rau’s Theatre of the Real Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Janine Hauthal discusses the transnational choreographic practices in Belgium as well as the intermedial work of Milo Rau. Hauthal notes the intertextuality and multilingualism of Rau’s ‘migratory aesthetics,’ which integrates film and live theatre in such productions as Empire, bringing together actors from different national environments to reflect on their work and their personal difficulties.
Review of "Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori", eds. Martin Kagel and David Z. Saltz Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Book review of an edited volume on the playwright George Tabori.
What is “Rural Feminism”? A computer-assisted analysis of popular antifeminist discourses in Chinese social media Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Along with the popularization of feminism in Chinese social media, an antifeminist wave has become increasingly prominent since 2014, marked most notably by the stigmatization buzzword “rural feminism.” We collected 2,104 texts regarding “rural feminism” on Zhihu (the Chinese Quora) and applied approaches of computer-assisted discourse studies (i.e., topic modeling, collocation, and concordance analyses) as lenses to help us understand the ...
European Peripheries in the Postcolonial Literary Imaginary Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Imagining the European Periphery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Black British literature’s infrequent engagement with European peripheries has largely involved writing back to Europe as imperial centre. Aminatta Forna’s The Hired Man (2013) pushes beyond this postcolonial “burden of representation” by focusing on the religious and ethnic conflicts that have plagued one of the most traditionally peripheralized parts of the European continent, South-Eastern Europe or the generic “Balkans”. Forna depicts ...
Campus Fictions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(Re-)Thinking Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Introduction Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Constellations of Voicing and Apostrophe in Mayröcker's Poetry Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This chapter deals with structures, gestures and metaphors of communication in Mayröcker's poetry. Based on literary criticism on the lyrical, this chapter considers a selection of poems in which lyrical constellations of voicing and apostrophe play an important role. It shows how Mayröcker's poetry displays an existential concern with opening a channel of phatic communication.