Overview

Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power.

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Author:   P. Lichtenfels ,  J. Rouse
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.679kg
ISBN:  

9780230278561

ISBN 10:   0230278566
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   11 April 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Lynette Hunter PART I: EXPANDING THE POLITICAL WITH PERFORMANCE 1. Performance and Language Diversity in a Globalizing World; Moradewun Adejunmobi 2. Zooming In and Out: Tactical Media Performance in Transnational Contexts; Marcela Fuentes 3. The Role of Theatre in the Breaking and Making of Two African Nations: Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1916-2011; Jane Plastow 4. For the Eyes of the Dear Father: Staging National Unity in the North Korean Arirang Festival; Suk-Young Kim 5. The Emaciated Spectator and the Witness of the Powerless; Alan Read PART II: DISTURBING THE POLITICAL WITH PERFORMANCE 6. 'Asking, We Walk'; Susan Kelly 7. Colour Blind: Seeing Difference, Performing Sightlessness; Patrick Anderson 8. Constellation: Engaging with Radical Devised Dance Theatre – Keith Hennessy's Sol Niger; Lynette Hunter 9. Glocalqueer Pink Activism; Eng-Beng Lim 10. The Palestinian State of Emergency and the Art Practice of Emily Jacir; Stephen Morton PART III: CRITIQUING THE POLITICAL WITH PERFORMANCE 11. Raw Life and the Ruse of Empathy; Frank Wilderson III 12. Siting Geography: Octavio Solis and the Circulation of Performance; Jon Rossini 13. Peter Sellars's Changing Conceptions of the Audience in Productions of Three Greek Plays; Peter Lichtenfels 14. Kleenex Citizens and the Performance of Undisposability; Shannon Jackson

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The essays in Performance, Politics and Activism offer myriad alternatives for encountering and analyzing radical performances that operate in resistance to inherited representational strategies and repressive political structures. Performance Studies scholars as well as theatre researchers will find many points of entry in this eclectic, expansive, and nuanced collection. (Christine Woodworth, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 4 (2), November, 2016)

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Moradewun Adejunmobi Patrick Anderson Marcela A. Fuentes (Marsha Gall) Lynette Hunter Shannon Jackson Susan Kelly Suk-Young Kim Peter Lichtenfels Stephen Morton Jane Plastow Jon D. Rossini John Rouse Frank B. Wilderson III

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