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Staging the Hyphen and Reframing Urban Reality in Site-Specific Performances: Miriam Schickler’s Echoing Yafa and the Complex Palestinian Geopolitical Context

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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The intersection of art, politics, and space has long been a subject of inquiry. In the charged socio-political landscape of Palestine, where the occupation of land, verisimilitudes of displacement, fragmentation of identity, and struggle for self-determination are deeply intertwined, Site-specific Performances emerge as critical spatial interventions, highlighting what it means to live and remember in Palestine. Effectively disrupting entrenched power dynamics at play and countering the sanitized narratives of hyphenated geopolitics super imposed by colonial paradigms, these embodied experiences of resistance not only aim to reclaim the physical space but to salvage the narrative space as well. For this purpose, the present study is mainly concerned with Miriam Schickler's site-specific performance Echoing Yafa (2014), with the aim of highlighting how this artistic endeavor - intertwining dramatic art with politics and space - not only reflects the socio-political context of Palestine, embodies its physical and metaphorical struggle against the constraints of imposed borders, and offers a dynamic method for participants to navigate, experience, and negotiate the complexities of Palestine's identity and history, but also does actively contribute to its redefinition. Underscoring the potential of Echoing Yafa to engage its participants directly with the physicality of space and the politics inscribed within, the study reaches the conclusion that site-specific performances are not merely artistic expressions, but canvases for political defiance, cultural survival, collective remembrance, spatial reclamation, and geopolitical commentary.

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10.21608/opde.2024.390876

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Cultural Survival, Narrative Hyphenation, Palestine, Political Defiance, Site-specific Performances, Spatial Hyphenation, Urban Geopolitical Hyphenation

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Neval Nabil Mahmoud

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Abdullah

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Associate Professor - Department of Humanities - College of Language & Communication - Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport- Heliopolis-Cairo-Egypt

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88

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1

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51483

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2024-10-01

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2024-11-07

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2024-10-01

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27

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55

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1110-2721

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2735-3591

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CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education

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Staging the Hyphen and Reframing Urban Reality in Site-Specific Performances: Miriam Schickler’s Echoing Yafa and the Complex Palestinian Geopolitical Context

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25 Dec 2024