Performing the Local and the Global: The Theatre Festivals of Lake Constance
Book
Wilkinson, J. (2007)
Performing the Local and the Global: The Theatre Festivals of Lake Constance. Peter Lang
This book explores the interplay between global and local influences in theatre festivals in the German-speaking border region around Lake Constance. Whilst opening up a fasci...
Rewriting 'Selves' and 'Others' in 'Postmigrant' Theatre
Presentation / Conference
Wilkinson, J. (2019, November)
Rewriting 'Selves' and 'Others' in 'Postmigrant' Theatre. Paper presented at Translating Cultures, Cultures in Translation (19th Annual Conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication), Universitat de València, Spain
The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of German-language plays engaging with stories of migration. After a relatively slow ‘trickle’ of plays narrating the experiences...
Staging Liminality in the German-Polish-Czech Borderland: The Trinational Theatre Production Dreiland
Journal Article
Wilkinson, J. (2010)
Staging Liminality in the German-Polish-Czech Borderland: The Trinational Theatre Production Dreiland. German Life and Letters, 63(1), 88-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2009.01484.x
In official European political discourse, borderlands, particularly those between old and new EU Member States, are positioned as ‘meeting spaces’ in which the idea of a unifi...
Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World
Book
(2014)
Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World
Based on the commonly held assumption that we now live in a world that is ‘on the move’, with growing opportunities for both real and virtual travel and the blurring of bounda...