In this innovative study, Leo Cabranes-Grant analyzes four intercultural events in the Viceroyalty of New Spain that took place between 1566 and 1690. Rather than relying on racial labels to describe alterations of identity, Cabranes-Grant focuses on experimentation, rehearsal, …
In 'Transgenerational Remembrance', Jessica Nakamura investigates the role of artistic production in the commemoration and memorialization of the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945) in Japan since 1989. During this time, survivors of Japanese aggression and imperialism, previously sile…
Ghosts of the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan -- Lingering Legacies of the War: Performance and Specters at Yasukuni Shrine -- Returning Kamikaze: Popular Culture, Affect, and Theatrical Repetition -- Staging Response-ability: Historical Omissions and the Audience -- Beco…
"Transgenerational Remembrance examines the legacy of the Asia-Pacific War in Japan (1931-1945) through contemporary output in theater and performance art. This book explicates art and theatrical productions dealing with kamikaze pilots, Japanese imperialism, comfort women, the …
"Transgenerational Remembrance examines the legacy of the Asia-Pacific War in Japan (1931-1945) through contemporary output in theater and performance art. This book explicates art and theatrical productions dealing with kamikaze pilots, Japanese imperialism, comfort women, the …
"Developing a new theory of choreographic space, the author shows how embodied forms of hope promised in ballet and progressive dance modernisms conceal and depend on spatial operations of imperial, colonial, and racial subjection"--
"Developing a new theory of choreographic space, the author shows how embodied forms of hope promised in ballet and progressive dance modernisms conceal and depend on spatial operations of imperial, colonial, and racial subjection"--.
"Developing a new theory of choreographic space, the author shows how embodied forms of hope promised in ballet and progressive dance modernisms conceal and depend on spatial operations of imperial, colonial, and racial subjection"--
"Developing a new theory of choreographic space, the author shows how embodied forms of hope promised in ballet and progressive dance modernisms conceal and depend on spatial operations of imperial, colonial, and racial subjection"--
"Taking Bangalore in southern India as its point of departure, this book explores the ways in which artists across India and beyond foreground neoliberalism as an inescapable market logic that permeates aesthetics, selfhood, and everyday life"--
"Taking Bangalore in southern India as its point of departure, this book explores the ways in which artists across India and beyond foreground neoliberalism as an inescapable market logic that permeates aesthetics, selfhood, and everyday life"--
"Taking Bangalore in southern India as its point of departure, this book explores the ways in which artists across India and beyond foreground neoliberalism as an inescapable market logic that permeates aesthetics, selfhood, and everyday life"--
"Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, institutional, and political puzzles that impinge on the social and aesthetic practice of performance by bringing together twenty essential essays from across her career"--
Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, institutional, and political puzzles that engage the social and aesthetic practice of performance in this collection of twenty essential essays spanning her career. Back Stages starts by considering the historical connection betw…
Theaters of Citizenship investigates the Egyptian movement for free theater, arguing that it evolved from an avant-gardist movement to an undercommons of revolutionary cultural practice. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book tells a story of this …