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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.
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 ...
(Re-)Thinking Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Campus Fictions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Introduction Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Europe as Alternative Space in Contemporary Australian Fiction by Carey, Tsiolkas and Jones Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article investigates imaginings of Europe in contemporary Australian fiction in order to explore whether (traveling to) Europe provides alternative points of reference to discourses on nation, belonging, and identity beyond the (settler) postcolonial. The article sets out to compare recent works by Peter Carey, Christos Tsiolkas and Gail Jones who narrate Europe against a wide range of backgrounds, covering diverse diasporic, migratory and ...