Memory-Theater As Cultural Generativity
Eslingena : A Musical In Toronto And Riga
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11264650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Inta Gale Carpenter (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-347 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Baltic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-9778 • E-ISSN: 1751-7877 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01629770701526763 |
| OpenAlex | W1964015389 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
Linking the concept of generativity to expressive culture as a communicative resource, this article asks how recontextualization shifts meanings. I focus on the reception by audiences in Toronto and Riga of Eslingena: A Musical, a play about life in a Latvian Displaced Persons camp in post-World War II Germany. North American audiences responded to Eslingena as performed memory. Anticipation of its performance in Riga suggested it might evoke countervailing memories that would trigger memory as a competition about suffering. Instead, Eslingena successfully mediated diasporic and homeland memories to produce a dialogue about agency grounded in differential experience
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Anticipation (artificial intelligence · Art · Collective memory · Generativity · Homeland · Latvian · Linguistics · Media studies · Musical · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
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Personal Power and Social Restraint in the Definition of Folklore
Between Theater and Anthropology
Purity and Exile
A World of Others' Words
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Neglected Areas in the Sociology of Immigrants and Ethnic Groups in North America
Culture, community, nation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |