04899nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-64538-9 DE-He213 20251030112852.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240813s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031645389 978-3-031-64538-9 10.1007/978-3-031-64538-9 doi PN2181-2193 AN bicssc PER011000 bisacsh ATD thema Vanderschueren, Jonas. author. (orcid)0000-0002-8479-085X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8479-085X aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82307 Queering Polishness in Polish Theatre Since 2005 [electronic resource] : Dissenting Bodies / by Jonas Vanderschueren. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 254 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter1: 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. Theatre 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. Theater History. 66689 Performing arts. 67607 Theater. 66691 Sex. 66477 Identity politics. Contemporary Theatre and Performance. Theatre and Performance Arts. 67611 Gender Studies. 66478 Politics and Gender. 70207 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031645372 Printed edition: 9783031645396 Printed edition: 9783031645402 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64538-9 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 62442 62442