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Performing Loss : Rebuilding Community through Theater and Writing /
In Performing Loss: Rebuilding Community through Theater and Writing, author Jodi Kanter explores opportunities for creativity and growth within our collective responses to grief. Performing Loss provides teachers, students, and others interested in performance with strategies for reading, writing,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Other Books in the Theater in the Americas Series; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Great Holes of History; 1. Loss, Performance, and Contemporary Culture; 2. Practicing Grief: Devising Scenes of Living and Dying; 3. Practicing Adaptation: Losses and Gains in Staging Blindness; 4. Practicing Community: Representing National Tragedy; 5. Practicing Responsibility: Race, Class, and Specters of Justice; 6. Practicing Compensation: Filling the Great Holes of History; 7. Practicing Joy: Improvisation in a Federal Prison.
- 8. Loss, Performance, and the FutureAppendix A. Devised Performance Assignments; Appendix B. Adaptation of Literature Assignments; Appendix C: Improvisation Exercises; Appendix D.A Pedagogical Note on the Performer's Grief; Notes; References; Index; Author Bio; Series Statement; Back Cover.