Assembling an Affective Archive in Performance: The Work of the Mourning Mother
Faculty-graduate student seminar
This paper will examine how the image of the mourning mother appears as a persistent cultural trope in recent documentary performance work and contemporary social movements (with a specific focus on Greece). In doing so, the paper will examine how contemporary performances of mourning mothers participate in the assemblage of a feminist archive, reanimating responsibility and care for the bodies of the dispossessed.
Maria Fragkou is Assistant Professor of Theater, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Maria Fragkou is Assistant Professor of Theater, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
| Building: | Tisch Hall |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Complit, Discussion, film, Free, Graduate Students, Greece, Inclusion, Interdisciplinary, Lecture, Modern Greek, women's studies |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Modern Greek Program |
