Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Contributors' Biographies

Introduction: Performance, Refuge and Resistance

Suzanne Little, Samid Suliman and Caroline Wake

On Stage

Chapter 1 Refugees, Visual Culture and Theatre: Reinscriptions and Contestations

Suzanne Little

Chapter 2 The Breath of Another: Mediated Testimony in the Play Manus

Anna Szörényi

Chapter 3 Eschewing Precarity in Spoken Word Poetry: Towards the Performance of Agency in Refugee Storytelling

Sukhmani Khorana

Chapter 4 Manus Island and Kurdistan in Juxtaposition: Reading Remain and Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time Beyond the Story of the Manus Prison

Zhila Gholami

Chapter 5 Offshore Onstage: Refugee Policies, Media Ecologies and Migrant Dramaturgies in Australia, 2001–2021

Caroline Wake

Off Stage

Chapter 6 Trouble on the Horizon

Suvendrini Perera

Chapter 7 The Anxiety of Cosmopolitanism in Political Philosophy

Nikos Papastergiadis

Chapter 8 How to Appear? Writing Art History in Australia after 1973

Verónica Tello

Chapter 9 Nomocide or the Nonperformativity of Colonial Law

Maria Giannacopoulos

Chapter 10 Putting on a Show: Considering the Dark Matter of Australian Border Theatre

Samid Suliman

Index

About the Author

Suzanne Little is Senior Lecturer and the Head of Theatre Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Samid Suliman is Senior Lecturer in Migration and Security in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia.

Caroline Wake is Senior Lecturer of Theatre and Performance at the University of NSW, Australia.