No flowers: performative interventions 'at the moment of' Margaret Thatcher's passing

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BUSH, Sophie and DANIELS, Morgan (2015). No flowers: performative interventions 'at the moment of' Margaret Thatcher's passing. TDR/The Drama Review, 59 (2), 103-113. [Article]

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Abstract

Why is “respect” the order of the day for the dead, such as Margaret Thatcher, upon their dying? Was Walter Benjamin right when he pointed to death and its trimmings as that which lends authority to the storyteller? And how might performance short circuit narratives so motored?

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Official URL:

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/DR...

Additional Information:

<p>Posted Online May 19, 2015.</p> <p>Article numbers - (T226)<p>

Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:

Humanities Research Centre

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103-113

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Identification Number:

10.1162/DRAM_a_00452