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Editors’ Note: Crises on Stage: Imagining New Worlds

Editors’ Note: Crises on Stage: Imagining New Worlds Crises on Stage 1 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0014 EDITORS’ NOTE Crises on Stage: Imagining New Worlds This special issue was set up to examine the ways in which North American theater and performance have responded to conditions of crisis in contemporaneity, and the essays selected have risen to the challenge. The volume maps a variety of practices, themes, and aesthetics employed by theater and performance artists and companies in their multi-faceted explorations of crisis, through interdisciplinary lenses drawing from cultural and literary studies, theater and performance studies, ethnic studies, migration studies, gender studies, sociology, political philosophy, and related fields. The contributors have clearly worked with an awareness of the growing body of research dedicated to this phenomenon as well as to the Greek origins of the term crisis and its evolution in time, from its traditional denomination as a crux of decision that forces an outcome to a more comprehensive understanding that includes the productive ambivalence between crisis as a moment of rupture and crisis as an ongoing condition. The topic is still relevant as the global struggles with the economic, political, social, psychological and other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue while the Russia-Ukraine war has not reached its end, these http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American British and Canadian Studies Journal de Gruyter

Editors’ Note: Crises on Stage: Imagining New Worlds

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Crises on Stage 1 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0014 EDITORS’ NOTE Crises on Stage: Imagining New Worlds This special issue was set up to examine the ways in which North American theater and performance have responded to conditions of crisis in contemporaneity, and the essays selected have risen to the challenge. The volume maps a variety of practices, themes, and aesthetics employed by theater and performance artists and companies in their multi-faceted explorations of crisis, through interdisciplinary lenses drawing from cultural and literary studies, theater and performance studies, ethnic studies, migration studies, gender studies, sociology, political philosophy, and related fields. The contributors have clearly worked with an awareness of the growing body of research dedicated to this phenomenon as well as to the Greek origins of the term crisis and its evolution in time, from its traditional denomination as a crux of decision that forces an outcome to a more comprehensive understanding that includes the productive ambivalence between crisis as a moment of rupture and crisis as an ongoing condition. The topic is still relevant as the global struggles with the economic, political, social, psychological and other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue while the Russia-Ukraine war has not reached its end, these

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American British and Canadian Studies Journal – de Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 2022

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