This book is an analysis and study of postmodernism, political
theatre, and the politics of representation. Traversing a wide span
of twentieth-century political theatre and performance practices in
the West, the author analyses and questions the performance
practices of the historical and neo-avant-gardes, modernist
political theatre, and postmodern performance in order to explore
the relationships between poltiics, performance and postmodernism.
Chinna contends that it is the provisional and contingent
strategies of performance which set the model for the postmodern.
Drawing on the poststructuralist theories of Jean-Francois Lyotard
and Jacques Derrida, among others, the postmodern is defined as a
performance model - like deconstruction, endlessly deferring
unequivocal meaning and final closure. It is argued that historical
avant-garde performance practices such as Dada, as well as the
neo-avant gardes from the 1950s onward, were always trapped within
a dialectic of representation and the 'real' in their quest for a
merging of art and life.
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