The dramaturgy of digital resurrection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20408228 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E B Hunter (0000-0001-8083-7115, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462937.2026.2686092 |
| OpenAlex | W7165158130 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
Considerable interest has developed in ‘digital resurrection,' the use of emergent technologies to bring back lost people, communities, and bodies of work. However, scholarship has not investigated how a digital resurrection operates dramaturgically. Foundational in theatre and performance studies, dramaturgical analysis illuminates how multiple choices contribute to a production’s structure and the cultural function it fulfils. Such analysis is vital to an understanding of digital resurrections, because they are theatricalized encounters. By analysing two apps that resurrect Black and Indigenous communities, the article demonstrates how this emergent phenomenon can fulfil the cultural function of restoring autonomy to minoritised communities
Autonomy · Dramaturgy · Function (biology) · Indigenous · Performance studies · Phenomenon · Scholarship · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Sound Studies and Aurality · Theatre and Performance Studies
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| Highly cited | No |