The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies

by D. Soyini Madison

• ISBN13: 9780761929314
• ISBN10: 0761929312
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-28
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies brings together, in a single volume, reviews of the major research in performance studies and identifies directions for further investigation. It is the only comprehensive collection on the theories, methods, politics, and practices of performance relating to life and culture. Edited by D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera, this Handbook serves scholars and students across the disciplines by delineating the scope of the field, the critical and interpretive methods used, and the theoretical and ethical presumptions that guide work in this exciting and growing area.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Performance Studies at the Intersections

Performance and Theory

Performance Trouble

Stages: Queers, Punks, and the Utopian Performative

Never, Again

Performance and Globalization

Performance, Performativity, and Cultural Poesis in Practices of Everyday Life

Performance and History

Performing History: A Politics of Location

Genealogies of Performance Studies

Memory, Remembering, and Histories of Change: A Performance Praxis

Minstrelsy and Mental Metempsychosis: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Women's Performance Criticism

What to Do When Nuclear War Breaks Out

Performance and Literature

Performance of and Beyond Literature

Shifting Contexts in Personal Narrative Performance

The Constructed Self: Strategic and Aesthetic Choices in Autobiographical Performance

The Strange Case of the Body in the Performance of Literature Classroom: An Enduring Mystery

On the Bias: From Performance of Literature to Performance Composition

Staging Paradox: The Local Art of Adaptation

Performance and Pedagogy

Performance and Pedagogy

Fieldwork in the Performance Studies Classroom: Learning Objectives and the Activist Curriculum

Ambulant Pedagogy

Pedagogy on the Move: New Intersections in (Between) the Educative and the Performative

Unlocking the Doors for Incarcerated Women Through Performance and Creative Writing

The Politics and Ethics of Performance Pedagogy: Toward a Pedagogy of Hope

Performance and Ethnography

Performance and Ethnography, Performing Ethnography, Performance Ethnography

Dwight Conquergood's "Rethinking Ethnography"

Rethinking Ethnography: Towards a Critical Cultural Politics

Ethnography and the Politics of Adaptation: Leon Forest's Divine Days

"She Attempted to Take Over the Choreography of the Sex Act": Dance Ethnography and the Movement Vocabulary of Sex and Labor

Staging Fieldwork/Performing Human Rights

Performance and Politics

Performance and Politics: Themes and Arguments

The Problem Democracy Is Supposed to Solve: The Politics of Community-Based Performance

Black Performance Studies: Genealogies, Politics, Futures

Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty

Who Is This Ancestor?: Performing Memory in Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons (A Multimedia Performance Meditation)

The Polemics and Potential of Theatre Studies and Performance

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