Decomposition - Post-Disciplinary Performance (Paperback)

The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity has produced in this volume a collection of great interest that crosses disciplinary lines of academic work. The essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics. In the title essay, Elizabeth Wood writes about a basic human relation cast around the question of performance and triangulated by the role a great performer took within it. In this unnatural act of somatic and sonic decomposition of the maternal body's soundscape, "she seeks to liberate herself and us from the last refuge of patriarchal order and compulsory heterosexuality, the subordinating myth of maternal omnipotence. The decomposition of such myths is a binding force in this volume. Together these essays pursue critical understanding of performance in our post-modern world, embodying perspectives that help us understand the historical and cultural issues that underpin it".

General

Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2000
First published:	June 2000
Editors:	Sue-Ellen Case • Philip Brett • Susan Leigh Foster
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-21374-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > General Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	0-253-21374-6
Barcode:	9780253213747

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