Staging and intertextualizing Franz Kafka’s “in the penal colony”

Bibliographic Data

ID12370162
AuthorsEvan Mitchell Schares (0000-0003-3163-6987, Communication, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume44
Issue3
Pages237-249
Publication date2023-08-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueText and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10462937.2023.2249070
OpenAlexW4386095854
LanguageEN
References cited21

In 2022, I adapted for the stage Franz Kafka's 1914 short story "In the Penal Colony" and intertextualized the text with devised narratives about the body in pain. I theorize both the staged performance and this reflexive essay as a method of embodied intertextual resistance within literary performance practice to unearth the relationships between performance and writing, body and machine, and the page and the stage. I highlight three moments of intertextual vignettes within the production to highlight the role of literary performance in healing both ourselves and the world around us.KEYWORDS: IntertextualityFranz Kafkaperformance of literaturedevisinganxious methods Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)

Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Reflexivity · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · Franz Kafka Literary Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies