The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance (1st ed. 2021)

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The purpose of this Handbook is to provide students with an overview of key developments in queer and trans feminist theories and their significance to the field of contemporary performance studies. It presents new insights highlighting the ways in which rigid or punishing notions of gender, sexuality and race continue to flourish in systems of knowledge, faith and power which are relevant to a new generation of queer and trans feminist performers today.The guiding question for the Handbook is: How do queer and trans feminist theories enhance our understanding of developments in feminist performance today, and will this discussion give rise to new ways of theorizing contemporary performance? As such, the volume will survey a new generation of performers and theorists, as well as senior scholars, who engage and redefine the limits of performance. The chapters will demonstrate how intersectional, queer and trans feminist theoretical tools support new analyses of performance with a global focus. The primary audience will be students of theatre/ performance studies as well as queer /gender studies. The volume’s contents suggest close links between the formation of queer feminist identities alongside recent key political developments with transnational resonances. Furthermore, the emergence of new queer and trans feminist epistemologies prompts a reorientation regarding performance and identities in a 21st-century context.
Copyright:
2021

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ISBN-13:
9783030695552
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9783030695545
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Springer International Publishing
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Language:
English
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Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater
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Edited by:
Tiina Rosenberg
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Sandra D'Urso
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Anna Renée Winget

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