The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030389734
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

While Balme and Szymanski-Düll advocate for an approach that traces networks of knowledge-sharing and funding, I see a need for two additional approaches: first, a clearer map of thematic, political and formal continuities among theatre-makers, as I have begun to sketch here; and, second, a grassroots focus that looks beyond institutions to examine small, localised companies making work in keeping with broader Cold War structures.

Applying a Cold War studies framework to theatre in what we now refer to as the ‘Global South’ is not just another heuristic. The Cold War profoundly shaped theatre in its ‘hot zones’, and these sites in turn impacted their global context in ways that are only starting to emerge. I have tried to suggest a few nodes of inquiry: for example, New Theatre techniques that transformed global performance practices in the 1960s and following. Tracing connections between these disparate case studies unearths surprising continuities in themes and practices, even in the absence of material networks of knowledge transfer. Other channels of knowledge exchange, influence and solidarity remain to be excavated. It is crucial that theatre scholars begin investigating these connections in order to expand and deepen our understanding of the global cultural Cold War.

Footnotes

1For a discussion of the meaning and genealogy of the term ‘Third World’, see Marcin Wojciech Solarz, ‘“Third World”: The 60th Anniversary of a Concept That Changed History’, Third World Quarterly, 33: 9 (2012), pp. 1561–73.

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