Time & Location
12 Dec, 6:00 PM
ub.mdw – Bruno-Walter-Lesesaal
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Wien
mdwPress is delighted to present Silke Felber’s monograph “Travelling Gestures – Elfriede Jelineks Theater der (Tragödien-)Durchquerung”.
Since Ein Sportstück (1998), Elfriede Jelinek’s theater texts have referred to Greek tragedy with inimitable consistency. Against the backdrop of right-wing populism, #metoo, and the climate crisis, the author crosses the gaze of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, thereby traversing and/or queering categorizations in terms of gender, class, and ethnicity.
Silke Felber describes Jelinek’s theater of (tragedy) traversal for the first time at the intersection of theater, literary, and cultural studies. In the form of a material-rich study, this foundational work brings to light gestures of lament and rage that point back to antiquity and, at the same time, to an uncertain future.
The book will be published on 27 November 2023 with mdwPress.
With introductory remarks from Prof. Dr. Evelyn Annuß (mdw) and a response from Asst.-Prof. Dr. Teresa Kovacs (Indiana University Bloomington).
About the author:
Silke Felber teaches and researches at the interface of theatre studies, literary studies and cultural studies. She is the winner of the prestigious Hertha Firnberg Award and Elise Richter Award of the Austrian Science Fund FWF.
Link to the publication: Travelling Gestures
