Domnica Radulescu is a distinguished professor of Romance languages at Washington and Lee University. She has authored, edited, or coedited nine scholarly books and collections of essays. Two of her plays have received recognition from the Jane Chambers Playwriting award and she is the author of two best-selling novels, with a third novel soon to be released. She is the founding director of the National Symposium of Theater in Academe.

“Recommended”—Choice; “Radulescu’s examination of the theater of the Balkans, Romania, Israel, and other sites of violence and exile demonstrates the power of theater to enable the survivors of trauma to document and witness, to reclaim the real, to produce social change, and to promote the possibility of healing, both on the personal and national levels...a model for understanding how artists depict and resist unspeakable violence and living a national identity far from that nation...will surely be of interest to scholars from a wide variety of fields.”—Kevin J. Wetmore, Department of Theatre Arts, Loyola Marymount University; “With an exile’s insight and an advocate’s clarity, with a scholar’s thoroughness and an artist’s passionate partiality, Radulescu assembles and frames an illuminating array of recent-and-contemporary theatrical manifestations that explore war-born, genocide-inscribed trauma.”—Erik Ehn, Professor and Chair of Theater Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Maya E. RothPrefaceIntroduction: Defining an Aesthetic of War and ExileOne.Exile as Ontological Mutation: Theater and Performance about ­Post-Communist RegionsAglaja Veteranyi: The ­Tragi-Comedy of NomadismSaviana Stanescu: Balkan Roots, Western WingsPavel Zuštiak: All Movement, No WordsExile Is My Home: Personal Testimonies on Creativity and ExileRadmila Adamová: Eastern Europe Meets IndochinaDorota Maslowska: Nomadism on DrugsTwo.Theater of War and Genocide, and Theater DystopiasMatei Vişniec: Consciousness Raising Through TheaterBiljana Srbljanović: Postwar DystopiasMilena Markovic: Grand Guignol Horror and Dystopia Motti Lerner: Playwriting as Resistance to WarBetween pages 162 and 163 are 8 color plates containing 12 photographsThree.Performance as Memory Keeper and Promoter of PeaceNoa Baum: Storytelling as a Way of Understanding the “Other”Marcy Arlin and the Immigrants Theater Project: Celebrating DiversityDAH Theater Group: Performance as Promoter of Peace and Repository of MemoryConclusion: Theater as SurvivalChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Domnica Radulescu is a distinguished professor of Romance languages at Washington and Lee University. She has authored, edited, or coedited nine scholarly books and collections of essays. Two of her plays have received recognition from the Jane Chambers Playwriting award and she is the author of two best-selling novels, with a third novel soon to be released. She is the founding director of the National Symposium of Theater in Academe.

“Recommended”—Choice; “Radulescu’s examination of the theater of the Balkans, Romania, Israel, and other sites of violence and exile demonstrates the power of theater to enable the survivors of trauma to document and witness, to reclaim the real, to produce social change, and to promote the possibility of healing, both on the personal and national levels...a model for understanding how artists depict and resist unspeakable violence and living a national identity far from that nation...will surely be of interest to scholars from a wide variety of fields.”—Kevin J. Wetmore, Department of Theatre Arts, Loyola Marymount University; “With an exile’s insight and an advocate’s clarity, with a scholar’s thoroughness and an artist’s passionate partiality, Radulescu assembles and frames an illuminating array of recent-and-contemporary theatrical manifestations that explore war-born, genocide-inscribed trauma.”—Erik Ehn, Professor and Chair of Theater Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Maya E. RothPrefaceIntroduction: Defining an Aesthetic of War and ExileOne.Exile as Ontological Mutation: Theater and Performance about ­Post-Communist RegionsAglaja Veteranyi: The ­Tragi-Comedy of NomadismSaviana Stanescu: Balkan Roots, Western WingsPavel Zuštiak: All Movement, No WordsExile Is My Home: Personal Testimonies on Creativity and ExileRadmila Adamová: Eastern Europe Meets IndochinaDorota Maslowska: Nomadism on DrugsTwo.Theater of War and Genocide, and Theater DystopiasMatei Vişniec: Consciousness Raising Through TheaterBiljana Srbljanović: Postwar DystopiasMilena Markovic: Grand Guignol Horror and Dystopia Motti Lerner: Playwriting as Resistance to WarBetween pages 162 and 163 are 8 color plates containing 12 photographsThree.Performance as Memory Keeper and Promoter of PeaceNoa Baum: Storytelling as a Way of Understanding the “Other”Marcy Arlin and the Immigrants Theater Project: Celebrating DiversityDAH Theater Group: Performance as Promoter of Peace and Repository of MemoryConclusion: Theater as SurvivalChapter NotesBibliographyIndex