Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance (Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative)

Synopsis

“A collection of essays in a variety of disciplines that confront oppressed, marginalized, and invisible space . . . an astonishing array of material.” —Theatre Research InternationalThe fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity have come together in Decomposition to produce a collection that crosses disciplinary lines of academic work. The essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics.In the title essay, Elizabeth Wood writes about a basic human relation cast around the question of performance and triangulated by the role that a great performer took within it. Together these essays pursue critical understandings of performance in our postmodern world.Contributors include Philip Brett, Sue-Ellen Case, Susan Leigh Forster, Amelia Jones, Kristine C. Kuramitsu, George Lipsitz, Catherine Lord, Ronald Radano, Timothy D. Taylor, Jeffrey Tobin, Deborah Wong, Elizabeth Wood, and B. J. Wray“Presents interpretive interventions of a more localized, materially and institutionally anchored, and ultimately more specific and powerful nature.” —TDR/The Drama Review

Copyright:

2000

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

232 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780253028204

Related ISBNs:

9780253213747

Publisher:

Indiana University Press

Date of Addition:

01/26/25

Copyrighted By:

Indiana University Press

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Sue-Ellen Case

Edited by:

Philip Brett

Edited by:

Susan Leigh Foster