TY - CHAP

T1 - Parastic politics

T2 - Elfriede Jelinek's 'secondary dramas' and their staging

AU - Juers-Munby, Karen

PY - 2013/12/19

Y1 - 2013/12/19

N2 - This chapter explores the politics of Elfriede Jelinek’s innovative new ‘secondary dramas’, texts designed to be performed alongside canonical dramas such as Goethe’s Faust or Lessing’s Nathan der Weise and disrupt them in performance. It engages with Hans-Thies Lehmann’s conception of the political as a disruption of political consensus and applies it to the relationship between the ‘no longer dramatic’ text and the dramatic tradition. With reference to Michel Serres and Jelinek’s own theoretical writing, her strategy is read as a form of deliberately ‘parasitic politics’ where the secondary drama simultaneously feeds off the classical drama and contemporary reality, in order to disrupt consensual views and make marginalised voices heard.

AB - This chapter explores the politics of Elfriede Jelinek’s innovative new ‘secondary dramas’, texts designed to be performed alongside canonical dramas such as Goethe’s Faust or Lessing’s Nathan der Weise and disrupt them in performance. It engages with Hans-Thies Lehmann’s conception of the political as a disruption of political consensus and applies it to the relationship between the ‘no longer dramatic’ text and the dramatic tradition. With reference to Michel Serres and Jelinek’s own theoretical writing, her strategy is read as a form of deliberately ‘parasitic politics’ where the secondary drama simultaneously feeds off the classical drama and contemporary reality, in order to disrupt consensual views and make marginalised voices heard.

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

SN - 9781408185704

T3 - Methuen Drama Engage

SP - 209

EP - 231

BT - Postdramatic theatre and the political

A2 - Juers-Munby, Karen

A2 - Carroll, Jerome

A2 - Giles, Steve

PB - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

CY - London

ER -