Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0415509653 ISBN 13: 9780415509657

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013

Riassunto

This book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledges the important close relationship between the discourses and practices historically while maintaining that theatre and performance can enlighten ways of being with others that are not limited by conventional identitarian languages. The essays engage contemporary theatre and performance practices that pose challenging questions about identity, as well as subjectivity, relationality, and the politics of aesthetics, responding to neo-liberal constructions and exploitations of identity by seeking to discern, describe, or imagine a new political subject. Chapters by leading international scholars look to visual arts practice, digital culture, music, public events, experimental theatre, and performance to investigate questions about representation, metaphysics, and politics. The collections seeks to foreground shared, universalist connections that unite rather than divide, visiting metaphysical questions of being and becoming, and the possibilities of producing alternate realities and relationalities. The book asks what is at stake in thinking about a subject, a time, a place, and a performing arts practice that would come ‘after’ identity, and explores how theatre and performance pose and interrogate these questions.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Matthew Causey is Associate Professor in the School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Fintan Walsh is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415509653
• ISBN 13: 9780415509657
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: Walsh Fintan, Causey Matthew
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania