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Author:   Erin Striff
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.355kg
ISBN:  

9780333786741

ISBN 10:   0333786742
Pages:   213
Publication Date:   27 September 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  A / AS level
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Locating Performance Studies; E.Striff POPULAR PERFORMANCE The Power Team: Muscular Christianity and the Spectacle of Conversion; S.Mazer Ethnological Show Business: Footlighting the Dark Continent; B.Lindfors Striptease: Desire, Mimetic Jeopardy, and Performing Spectators; K.Liepe-Levinson PERFORMING BODIES, PERFORMANCE ART The Surgical Self: Body Alteration and Identity; P. Auslander Reconsidering Homophobia: Karen Finley's Indiscretions; L.Hart PERFORMING HISTORIES/MEMORIES Spectacular Suffering: Performing Presence, Absence and Witness at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; V.M.Patraka Hearing Anita Hill and Clarence Tomas; P.Phelan PERFORMANCE AND THE WORLD The Street is the Stage; R.Schechner Culture and Performance in the Circum-Atlantic World; J.Roach Jewels Brought Back from Bondage: Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity; P.Gilroy PERFORMATIVITY/PERFORMANCE Critically Queer; J.Butler Choreographies of Gender; S.L.Foster Summaries and Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index.

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ERIN STRIFF is Assistant Professor of English at Hartford University, USA. She has published on feminist theatre and performance art.

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