- Summary
- Performance and Cultural Politics investigates the historical and cultural territories of performance, covering performance art, theatre, dance, photography, and music. The contributors explore topics from Oscar Wilde to Milli Vanilli, from the Rose Theatre to Holocaust museums. This exciting and wide-ranging volume also includes an essay by performance artist Robbie McCauley, offering a practitioner's perspective.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996
- Contents
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Acting out orientalism : Sapphic theatricality in turn-of-the-century Paris / Emily Apter
Posing the question : Wilde, wit, and the ways of man / Ed Cohen
Doing it anyway : lesbian sado-masochism and performance / Lynda Hart
Playing dead in stone, or, when is a rose not a rose? / Peggy Phelan
Spectacles of suffering : performing presence, absence, and historical memory at U.S. Holocaust museums / Vivian M. Patraka
Festivities and jubilations on the graves of the dead : sanctifying sullied space / Glenda Dicker/sun
Pygmalion's no-body and the body of dance / Susan Leigh Foster
After us the savage goddess : feminist performance art of the explicit body staged, uneasily, across modernist dreamscapes / Rebecca Schneider
Flat-out vision / Herbert Blau
Liveness : performance and the anxiety of simulation / Philip Auslander
Kinship, intelligence, and memory as improvisation : culture and performance in New Orleans / Joseph Roach
Forms of appearance of value : Homer Plessy and the politics of privacy / Amy Robinson
Thoughts on my career, The other weapon, and other projects / Robbie McCauley.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Diamond, Elin.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acting out orientalism : Sapphic theatricality in turn-of-the-century Paris / Emily Apter -- Posing the question : Wilde, wit, and the ways of man / Ed Cohen -- Doing it anyway : lesbian sado-masochism and performance / Lynda Hart -- Playing dead in stone, or, when is a rose not a rose? / Peggy Phelan -- Spectacles of suffering : performing presence, absence, and historical memory at U.S. Holocaust museums / Vivian M. Patraka -- Festivities and jubilations on the graves of the dead : sanctifying sullied space / Glenda Dicker/sun -- Pygmalion's no-body and the body of dance / Susan Leigh Foster -- After us the savage goddess : feminist performance art of the explicit body staged, uneasily, across modernist dreamscapes / Rebecca Schneider -- Flat-out vision / Herbert Blau -- Liveness : performance and the anxiety of simulation / Philip Auslander -- Kinship, intelligence, and memory as improvisation : culture and performance in New Orleans / Joseph Roach -- Forms of appearance of value : Homer Plessy and the politics of privacy / Amy Robinson -- Thoughts on my career, The other weapon, and other projects / Robbie McCauley.
