Thinking with Care: Theater, Archive, Historiography
Abstract
This article offers a review of the edited volume The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography (2020). The reviewer focuses on the ideological and methodological assumptions of the editors while paying particular attention to the inspirational role of the archival and affective turns in humanities. She brings out the issues that accentuate the political and ideological aspects of working with theater archives, especially the power relations latent in historical documents as well as the researcher's multifaceted relationship with the object of study. She also draws attention to the ways in which the position of the historian can be problematized and to the significance of the socio-political contexts of theater in its historiography.
Keywords:
theater, archive, archival turn, theater history, historiographyReferences
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Magdalena RewerendaAdam Mickiewicz University Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9031-2793
Magdalena Rewerenda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater and Media Arts at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She also worked at the Institute of Cultural Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Her research interests focus on contemporary theater and drama, mainly in the context of the memory studies and the archival turn in the humanities. She is the author of the book Performatywne archiwum teatru. Konsekwencje „Nie-Boskiej komedii. Szczątków” Olivera Frljicia (2020).
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