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Sorry Not Sorry

Monster Truck’s Postcolonial Anti-Authenticity Spectacular!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2023

Lily Kelting
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Abstract

Monster Truck’s performances reproduce power dynamics that are at once painful and hurtful. By staging the representational process of dehumanizing black bodies, Monster Truck applies a different strategy than other Freie Szene groups: shining a bright light on dark discourse, selling the audience’s own willing consumption of neocolonial power relationships back to them as art.

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Special Issue on Contemporary German Theatre
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TDR , Volume 67 , Special Issue 2: Contemporary German Theatre , June 2023 , pp. 65 - 84
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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