Six, Tom (2025) No One Escapes: thoughts on coloniality, peace and martyrdom after watching Khalid Abdalla’s 'Nowhere'. Studies in Theatre and Performance. (In Press)

Abstract

This short essay draws on Stuart Hall's account of globalization and diaspora to argue that Khalid Abdalla’s autobiographical performance 'Nowhere' constitutes a deeply eloquent and ambivalent staging of the experience of identity in the contemporary world. By contrast, however, the piece argues that Abdalla's final turn to Palestine, and the image of a dove of peace, constitutes a derogation to the logic and commitments of colonial modernity, and thus to Zionist normalization. The essay proposes, instead, that the framework of martyrdom, which ghosts Abdalla's performance, may constitute the ultimate fulfilment of our constitution as political subjects in a genocidal world.

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Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	European Theatre, Dance and Performance Performance Political Theatre Race
Depositing User:	Tom Six
Date Deposited:	12 Dec 2025 09:32
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2025 09:32
URI:	https://repository.cssd.ac.uk/id/eprint/1853