Performance and cultural politics / Edited by Elin Diamond

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