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Performance and cultural politics / Edited by Elin Diamond

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996Description: 294 pISBN:
  • 0415127689
Summary: Performance and Cultural Politics investigates the historical and cultural territories of performance, covering of performance art, theatre, dance, photography, and music. The contributors explore topics from Oscar Wilde to Milli Vanilly 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. Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking, and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Policies is a landmark in performance studies and essential reading for students and scholars. (Font: Editor)
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List of illustration -- Nous on contributors -- Introduction / Elin Diamond -- I. Re-sexing Culture: Stereotype, pose, and dildo ; 2. Acting out orientalism: Sapphic theatricality in turn-of-the-century Paris / Emily Apter ; 3. Posing the question: Wilde, wit, and the ways of man / Ed Cohen ; 4. Doing it anyway: lesbian sado-masochism and performance / Lynda Hart -- II. Grave Performances: The cultural politics of memory: 5. Playing dead in stone, or, when is a Rose not a Rose? / Peggy Phelan ; 6. Spectacles of suffering: performing presence, absence, and historical memory at U.S. Holocaust museums / Vivian M. Patraka ; 7. Festivities and jubilations on the graves of the dead: sanctifying sullied space / Glenda Dickerlsun -- III. Moving/Seeing: Bodies and technologies: 8. Pygmalion's no-body and the body of dance / Susan Leigh Foster ; 9. After us the savage goddess: feminist performance art of the explicit body staged, uneasily, across modernist dreamscapes / Rebecca Schneider ; 10. Flat-out vision / Herbert Blau ; 11. Liveness: performance and the anxiety of simulation / Philip Auslander -- IV. Identity Politics: Law and performance: 12. Kinship, intelligence, and memory as improvisation: culture and performance in New Orleans / Joseph Roach ; 13. Forms of appearance of value: Homer Plessy and the politics of privacy / Amy Robinson -- V. Performer/Performance: 14. Thoughts on my career, the other weapon, and other projects / Robbie McCauley -- Index

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