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- The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous
- Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
- The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transliteration and Translation
- Chronology of Wannous’ Life, Plays, and Selected Writings
- Introduction
- Part I Situating Wannous
- Part II Reading Wannous
- 3 Keeping Silent, or the Silence That Kept Wannous
- 4 The Failure of Revolutionary Humanism: Reading Wannous with Fanon
- 5 Historiography as Resistance in the Later Plays of Wannous
- Part III Staging Wannous
- Part IV Remembering Wannous
- List of Wannous’ Plays
- Summaries of Wannous’ Principal Plays
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Keeping Silent, or the Silence That Kept Wannous
from Part II - Reading Wannous
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2021
- The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous
- Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
- The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transliteration and Translation
- Chronology of Wannous’ Life, Plays, and Selected Writings
- Introduction
- Part I Situating Wannous
- Part II Reading Wannous
- 3 Keeping Silent, or the Silence That Kept Wannous
- 4 The Failure of Revolutionary Humanism: Reading Wannous with Fanon
- 5 Historiography as Resistance in the Later Plays of Wannous
- Part III Staging Wannous
- Part IV Remembering Wannous
- List of Wannous’ Plays
- Summaries of Wannous’ Principal Plays
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses the figurative and literal silence manifested in the period in which the Syrian playwright Sa’dallah Wannous ceased to write plays altogether. It places this silence within a political framework and identifies historical events related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict such the Camp David Accords and the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1978 as the main trigger for Wannous’ literal silence. The chapter also interprets the playwright’s literal silence as a meaningful event rather than an intellectual aporia and points out that during this period, Wannous continued to write critical essays in addition to co-founding and directing the most important theatre school in Syria, the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts.
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- The Theatre of Sa'dallah WannousA Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual, pp. 59 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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