TY - BOOK ID - 17341404 TI - Aesthetic citizenship : immigration and theater in twenty-first-century Paris PY - 2017 SN - 9780810135666 9780810135673 9780810135680 0810135671 0810135663 PB - Evanston: Northwestern university press, DB - UniCat KW - Immigrants in literature. KW - Immigrants KW - Theater and society KW - Theater KW - Social conditions KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - Paris (France) KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - Theater and society. KW - Social conditions. KW - Political aspects. KW - 2000-2099. KW - France KW - Immigrants in literature KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Theater - Political aspects - France - Paris - History - 21st century KW - Theater and society - France - Paris KW - Immigrants - France - Paris - Social conditions - 21st century KW - Paris (France) - Emigration and immigration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17341404 AB - Aesthetic citizenship is an ethnographic study of the role of theatrical performance in questions regarding immigration, citizenship, and the formation of national identity. Focusing on Paris in the twenty-first century, Emine Fişek analyzes the use of theater by immigrant-rights organizations there and examines the relationship between aesthetic practices and the political personhoods they negotiate. From neighborhood associations and humanitarian alliances to arts organizations both large and small, Fişek traces how theater has emerged as a practice with the perceived capacity to address issues of immigrant rights, integration, and experience. Yet her insightful research also illuminates Paris's broader historical, political, and cultural throughlines that continue to shape the relationship between theater and migration in France. By focusing on how French public discourses on immigration are not only rendered meaningful but also inhabited and modified in the context of activist and arts practice, Aesthetic Citizenship seeks to answer the fundamental question : is theater a representational act or can it also be a transformative one ? ER -