Performance, Space, Utopia

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2. Introduction: Cities of War, Cities of Exile

   1. Introduction: Cities of War, Cities of Exile

      • Silvija Jestrovic

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3. Belgrade: The City of Spectacle

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   2. City-as-Action

      • Silvija Jestrovic

      Pages 17-55

   3. At the Confluence of Utopia and Seduction

      • Silvija Jestrovic

      Pages 56-92

   4. Epilogue: Endemic Geopathologies

      • Silvija Jestrovic

      Pages 93-105

4. Sarajevo: Imaginaries and Embodiments

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   2. Waiting for Godot: Sarajevo and its Interpretations

      • Silvija Jestrovic

      Pages 115-128

   3. City-as-Body

      • Silvija Jestrovic

      Pages 129-155

   4. Theatricality versus Bare Life

      • Silvija Jestrovic

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   5. Theatre as Ideal City

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      Pages 167-189

5. City of Exiles

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   2. In the Comfort of Non-Place

      • Silvija Jestrovic

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6. Back Matter

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Over 20 years after the war in Yugoslavia, this book looks back at its two most iconic cities and the phenomenon of exile emerging as a consequence of living in them in the 1990s. It uses examples ranging from street interventions to theatre performances to explore the making of urban counter-sites through theatricality and utopian performatives.

• bibliography
• cities
• corpus
• exile
• interpret
• knowledge
• living
• performance
• space
• theatre
• utopia
• Yugoslavia

SILVIJA JESTROVIC was born in Belgrade and lived in Toronto. She is Associate Professor at University of Warwick, UK. Her previous books include Theatre of Estrangement: Theory, Practice, Ideology (U of Toronto Press, 2006) and the edited collection (with Yana Meerzon) Performance, Exile, 'America' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). She has also written for stage and radio.

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