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Item Details
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DECOMPOSITION
POST-DISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE |
| By: |
Sue-Ellen Case (Editor), Philip Brett (Editor), Susan Foster (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£33.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0253337232 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253337238 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 June, 2000 |
| Series: |
Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Description: |
Moving from the local to the global, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics, these essays seek the decomposition of cultural myths. It pursues understandings of performance in the postmodern world, embodying perspectives that help understand the historical and cultural issues that underpin it. |
| Synopsis: |
The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity has produced in "Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance", a collection of great interest that crosses disciplinary lines of academic work. The essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics. In the title essay, Elizabeth Wood writes with eloquence about a basic human relation cast around the question of performance and triangulated by the role a great performer took within it. In this unnatural act of somatic and sonic decomposition of the maternal body's "soundscape", she seeks to liberate herself and us from the last refuge of patriarchal order and compulsory heterosexuality, the subordinating myth of maternal omnipotence. The decomposition of such myths is a binding force in this volume. Together these essays pursue critical understandings of performance in our postmodern world, embodying perspectives that help us understand the historical and cultural issues that underpin it. |
| Illustrations: |
30 b&w photos, 1 figures, 1 index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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