This text examines the concept and practice of myth performance in African Diaspora dramas and dances. These six essays chart a new path that enriches and enhances the understanding of African diaspora myth performance in literary and diaspora studies.
"To what extent did mythological figures such as Circe and Medea influence the representation of the powerful 'oriental' enchantress in modern Western art? What role did the ancient gods and heroes play in the construction of the imaginary worlds of the modern fantasy genre? Wha…
"To what extent did mythological figures such as Circe and Medea influence the representation of the powerful 'oriental' enchantress in modern Western art? What role did the ancient gods and heroes play in the construction of the imaginary worlds of the modern fantasy genre? Wha…
"Pandemic Performance chronicles the many ways that people are surviving/thriving through performance in a global pandemic. Covering artists and events from across the United States: from New York to California and from South Dakota to Texas, the chapters are equal parts theory …
"A companion volume to the author's Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases (2002), this reference work chronicles 298 cases defined as "celebrity" homicides from the early twentieth century onward. Each entry covers the crime, its l…
"This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of visual art, theatre, and performance. Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre theory and performances…
"This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of visual art, theatre, and performance. Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre theory and performances…
Off Sites: A New Journey through Other Spaces -- Disciplinary Sites: Situating Theatre -- Spectator Sites: Artistic Intervention and the Unintended Audience -- Temporal Sites: Moving Site, Moving Time -- Urban Sites: Landmark Performance -- Epilogue "This book examines site-bas…
"This book examines site-based work being done in the United States and Latin America, providing a bold vision on how to approach this genre of performance through a careful study of the distinct ways artists approach this genre of performance in the United States"--
Afro-Brazilian performance on Rio de Janeiro's popular stages from the 1880s to the long 1920s -- The Rio de Janeiro-Paris performance axis in the first decades of the 20th century : Duque, the Oito Batutas, and the question of "race"--The Teatro de Revista in Rio de Janeiro in …
Performance in the Texts of Mallarm ̌offers a new theory of performance in the poetic and critical texts of Stephane Mallarm, ̌ a theory challenging the prevailing interpretation of his work as epitomizing literary purism and art for art's sake. Following an analytical presentatio…
"Performance in the Texts of Mallarme offers a new theory of performance in the poetic and critical texts of Stephane Mallarme, a theory challenging the prevailing interpretation of his work as epitomizing literary purism and art for art's sake." "Following an analytical present…