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Corporealities - Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Power (Paperback)
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Corporealities - Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Power (Paperback)
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"Corporealities" vivifies the study of bodies through a
consideration of bodily reality, not as natural or absolute given
but as tangible and substantial category of cultural experience.
The essays in this volume summon up bodies engaged in practices as
diverse as pageantry, physical education, festivals and
exhibitions, tourism, social and theatrical dance, and
post-colonial and psychoanalytic encounters. They bring these
bodies to life, quivering with all the political, gendered, social,
racial, sexual, and aesthetic resonances of which bodily motion is
capable.
Dancing wends its way through this volume as subject matter and as
theoretical framework for understanding embodiment. Dancing also
prompts these essays to grapple with the body's ephemerality, the
non-substantial history of its habits and accomplishments, and to
persevere in the task of translating its movement into words,
bodily phrasing into syntactical structure, movement qulaity into
metaphor, and choreography into theory.
These essays work to resurrect bodies in all their fulsome
cultural significance, but they also move bodies across
disciplinary boundaries so as to enable a rethinking of previously
stable categories of knowledge. As they examine the body's
participation in the production of narrative, the construction of
collectivity, the articulation of the unconscious, the generation
of post-coloniality, and the economies of gender and expression,
they contour new relations between history and memory, aesthetics
and politics. These epistemic relations inspire unconventional
formulations of human agency that promise to move us past current
modes of academic and political stasis.
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