Name: The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies
Price: $146.25 USD
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Author: D. Soyini Madison
ISBN: 9780761929314

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.

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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