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"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance;...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, Diana, 1950- (Author)
Other Authors: Levine, Abigail (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its arguments. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world. -- from back cover.
Physical Description:1 online resource (235 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780822375128