Performance /
"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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Español |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2016.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (235 pages): illustrations ; |
ISBN: | 9780822375128 |