Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices - Brossura

Parker-Starbuck, Jennifer

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ISBN 10: 1349476463 ISBN 13: 9781349476466

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Riassunto

Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance. Animals have always played a part in human performance practices. Maintaining a crucial role in many communities' cultural traditions, animal-human encounters have been key in the development of performance. Similarly, performance including both living animals and/or representations of animals provides the context for encounters in which issues of power, human subjectivity and otherness are explored. Crucially, however, the inclusion of animals in performance also offers an opportunity to investigate ethical and moral assumptions about human and non-human animals. This book offers a historical and theoretical exploration of animal presence in performance by looking at the concept of animality and how it has developed in theatre and performance practices from the eighteenth century to today. Furthermore, it points to shifts in political, cultural, and ethical animal-human relations emerging within the context of animality and performance.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Una Chaudhuri, New York University, USA Laura Cull, University of Surrey, UKHolly Hughes, University of Michigan, USAKim Marra, University of Iowa, USAGarry Marvin, University of Roehampton, UKMonica Mattfeld, University of Kent, UKLourdes Orozco, University of Leeds, UKJennifer Parker-Starbuck, University of Roehampton, UKCarrie Rohman, Lafayette College, USA Peta Tait, La Trobe University, AustraliaCatherine Young, City University of New York, USA

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1349476463
• ISBN 13: 9781349476466
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Redattore: Orozco L.
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