Ilka Saal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1711226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilka Saal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilka |
| FAMILY NAME | Saal |
| SIGNATURE | SAAL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Erfurt |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Re/playing slavery: The play within the play in Suzan-Lori Parks's White Noise and Jeremy O. Harris's
This article considers the use of the play within the play in recent African American dramas. Following Caroline Levine’s discussion of forms, it asks about the dramaturgical and political affordances of this device when used together with the reenactment of the Master-Slave script. Comparing Suzan-Lori Parks’s White Noise (2019) and Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play (2018), the article discusses what the metatheatrical re/play of slavery in the two …
Dossett, Kate. Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2020. pp. 338
Kate Dossett
American Cultures As Transnational Performance
Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination
Honorable Mention for the 2022 Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited Collection Interrogates how artists have created new ways to imagine the past of American slavery From Kara Walker’s hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty’s bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead’s literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele’s body-snatching Get Out , this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works tha…
Post-National American Dreaming in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland: The Adversity of Hans van den Broek
Netherland has received much praise for its original approach to the events of 11 September 2001, particularly for its deterritorialization of established narratives of nationhood into an immigrant community and global setting, which to many critics signals a much-needed break from unilateral accounts of trauma and a significant repositioning of the American nation toward the world. At the same time, the novel also remains deeply indebted to key …
New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater
New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cous
On the Stages of Istanbul: Atatürk and the New Young Turks
What is the relationship of an artwork to the sociopolitical context in which that work was created? James Westcott discusses how Thomas Hirschhorn in Superficial Engagement reproduces the violence of war propaganda. Magda Romanska analyzes the trial in Poland of Dorota Nieznalska, accused of “offending religious feelings” with her work Passion. Ilka Saal reports on the 15th International Istanbul Theater Festival where emerging artists break wit…
Books
September 01 2005 A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater. By SavranDavid Ilka Saal Ilka Saal Assistant Professor of English at the University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ilka Saal Assistant Professor of English at the University of Richmond Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 105…
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Books
September 01 2005 A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater. By SavranDavid Ilka Saal Ilka Saal Assistant Professor of English at the University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ilka Saal Assistant Professor of English at the University of Richmond Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 105…
New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater
New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cous
On the Stages of Istanbul: Atatürk and the New Young Turks
What is the relationship of an artwork to the sociopolitical context in which that work was created? James Westcott discusses how Thomas Hirschhorn in Superficial Engagement reproduces the violence of war propaganda. Magda Romanska analyzes the trial in Poland of Dorota Nieznalska, accused of “offending religious feelings” with her work Passion. Ilka Saal reports on the 15th International Istanbul Theater Festival where emerging artists break wit…
Post-National American Dreaming in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland: The Adversity of Hans van den Broek
Netherland has received much praise for its original approach to the events of 11 September 2001, particularly for its deterritorialization of established narratives of nationhood into an immigrant community and global setting, which to many critics signals a much-needed break from unilateral accounts of trauma and a significant repositioning of the American nation toward the world. At the same time, the novel also remains deeply indebted to key …
Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination
Honorable Mention for the 2022 Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited Collection Interrogates how artists have created new ways to imagine the past of American slavery From Kara Walker’s hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty’s bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead’s literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele’s body-snatching Get Out , this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works tha…
American Cultures As Transnational Performance
Dossett, Kate. Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2020. pp. 338
Kate Dossett
Re/playing slavery: The play within the play in Suzan-Lori Parks's White Noise and Jeremy O. Harris's
This article considers the use of the play within the play in recent African American dramas. Following Caroline Levine’s discussion of forms, it asks about the dramaturgical and political affordances of this device when used together with the reenactment of the Master-Slave script. Comparing Suzan-Lori Parks’s White Noise (2019) and Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play (2018), the article discusses what the metatheatrical re/play of slavery in the two …
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