Bandit: Here to Haunt You! On Why I Became an Émigré Theatre Maker

Abstract

The article employs concepts of time lag, inspired by Ernst Bloch, and ghost and haunting, borrowed from Jacques Derrida. It also draws on Svetlana Boym’s and Vilém Flusser’s vision of the émigré and on Dominick LaCapra’s and Slavoj Žižek’s interpretations of trauma. The analysis is also informed by Karen Jürs-Munby’s and Cathy Caruth’s views on trauma and its representation in theatre.

Keywords

• time lag
• émigré
• trauma
• communism
• ghost
• haunting
• churchill