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Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater (Hardcover)
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Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater (Hardcover)
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In Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater,
Peilin Liang develops a theory of bodily transformation. Proposing
the concept of transformance, a conscious and rigorous process of
self-cultivation toward a reconceptualized body, Liang shows how
theater practitioners of minoritized cultures adopt transformance
as a strategy to counteract the embodied practices of ideological
and economic hegemony. This book observes key Taiwanese
contemporary theater practitioners at work in forging five
reconceptualized bodies: the energized, the rhythmic, the
ritualized, the joyous, and the (re)productive. By focusing on the
development of transformance between the years of 2000-2008, a
tumultuous political watershed in Taiwan's history, the author
succeeds in bridging postcolonialism and interculturalism in her
conceptual framework. Ideal for scholars of Asian and postcolonial
theater, Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater
shows how transformance, rather than performance, calibrates with
far greater precision and acuity the state of the body and the
culture that it seeks to create.
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