04504nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001500169072002300184072001500207100015100222245012500373250001800498264007900516300004200595336002600637337002600663338003600689347002400725505064100749520222101390650002203611650002103633650001303654650000903667650002303676650004203699650003403741650002003775650002503795710003403820773002603854776003603880776003603916776003603952856004603988978-3-031-64538-9DE-He21320251030112852.0cr nn 008mamaa240813s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316453897 a10.1007/978-3-031-64538-92doi 4aPN2181-2193 7aAN2bicssc 7aPER0110002bisacsh 7aATD2thema1 aVanderschueren, Jonas.eauthor.0(orcid)0000-0002-8479-085X1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8479-085X4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aQueering Polishness in Polish Theatre Since 2005h[electronic resource] :bDissenting Bodies /cby Jonas Vanderschueren.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXI, 254 p. 1 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The transformative power of dissensus: Polish normativity and queer dissensus in contemporary Polish theatre -- Chapter 3; Exploring the field, reshaping the field: On the theatre field in Poland, precarity and protest -- Chapter 4; Reorienting the nation: On Polish national identity, weak messianism, and queer failure -- Chapter 5; Challenging the Artistic Genius: On collaborative modes of production in theatre and performance -- Chapter 6; Decolonizing Polishness: On postcolonial theory, racism, and transphobia -- Chapter 7; Conclusion: On Polish normativity (revisited) and missing threads.  aTheatre has long been an art form at the centre of public life in Poland. Whether it is the self-professed poet-prophets of the Romantic era, or the dissident theatre makers working under the strictures of state socialism, the art form has played a vital role in the development of Polish culture and politics in the context of shifting foreign occupations. This book explores the relationship between contemporary Polish theatre makers and contemporary notions of Polishness and argues that queer theory, and specifically a Polish appropriation of queer theory, can be a crucial element to better understand the politicality of the contemporary Polish theatre field. It does this by focusing on critical theatre productions which are produced at the margins of the Polish theatre field, a choice which has been made as the field is dominated by traditional drama theatres which reproduce a Polish variation on the Western canon. This makes smaller, atypical, and independent theatre productions all the more significant, as they signify a refusal to continue the traditional role of the Polish theatre field in reproducing the canon of Polish Romanticism. As such, the book argues that contemporary Polish theatre has been marked by a struggle between those building performances and state authorities that see those creations as a threat to their authority. Jonas Vanderschueren is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cultural Studies Institute of KU Leuven, Belgium, where he specializes in contemporary Polish theatre, performance, and culture. He recently obtained his Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, which investigated the artistic strategies that contemporary Polish makers have developed to resist the pressures to comply with Polish normativity, an inseparable collision between Polish nationalism and heteronormativity. He is currently working on REFAM, a CELSA-funded research collaboration between KU Leuven, University of Tartu, and Jagiellonian University. Previously he was affiliated with the Department for Central and Eastern European Languages and Cultures of Ghent University, while he has also worked as a freelance journalist for publications as diverse as Knack, MO*, SamPol, Etcetera, and Jacobin NL. 0aTheaterxHistory. 0aPerforming arts. 0aTheater. 0aSex. 0aIdentity politics.14aContemporary Theatre and Performance.24aTheatre and Performance Arts.24aGender Studies.24aPolitics and Gender.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303164537208iPrinted edition:z978303164539608iPrinted edition:z978303164540240uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64538-9