Theories of Performance: Critical and Primary Sources

Theories of Performance: Critical and Primary Sources is a comprehensive collection of key writings on performance, covering diverse disciplines and perspectives from the northern and southern hemispheres. It includes 90 essays on discipline, method, documentation, and body politic, addressing current questions of protest culture, race and gender politics, biopolitics, indigenous studies, postcolonialism, and language/translation.

Format: Multiple-component retail product
Publication date: 24 February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Theories of Performance: Critical and Primary Sources is a comprehensive collection of key writings on the transdisciplinary 'performative turn' that has permeated diverse fields such as theatre, comparative literature, philosophy, law, history, English, and science and technology studies. The collected essays draw upon writing from these disciplines and more, illustrating how performance has become an ever more vibrant and plastic discursive practice. The four volumes address current questions of protest culture, race and gender politics, biopolitics, indigenous studies and perspectives, postcolonialism and decoloniality, and language/translation, among others. Each volume is introduced by the editor and arranged thematically, allowing the development of ideas to be traced within a theme. The set includes 90 essays covering the following major areas: discipline, method, documentation, and body politic. Together, the four volumes of Theories of Performance provide a major scholarly resource for the field.

Weight: 2516g
ISBN-13: 9781350118096