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History as Performance (Routledge Studies in Cultural History) - Hardcover

Book 91 of 147: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Hüchtker, Dietlind

 
9780367545710: History as Performance (Routledge Studies in Cultural History)

Synopsis

This study analyzes history as performance: as the interaction of actors, plays, stages and enactments. By this, it examines women’s politics in Habsburg Galicia around 1900: a Polish woman active in the peasant movement, a Ukrainian feminist, and a Jewish Zionist. It shows how the movements constructed essentialistically regarded collectives, experience as a medially comprehensible form of credibility, and a historically based inevitability of change, and legitimized participation and intervention through social policy and educational practices. Traits shared by the movements included the claim to interpretive sovereignty, the ritualization of participation, and the establishment of truths about past and future.

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About the Author

Dietlind Hüchtker is Professor for Historical Transregional Studies at Vienna University.

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