Performance Works Series

16 primary works • 16 total works
This series publishes monographs in theater and performance studies, focused in particular on the material conditions in which performance acts are staged, and to which performance itself might contribute. We define “performance” in the broadest sense, including traditional theatrical productions and performance art, but also cultural ritual, polit…
Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York
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    From Scenarios to Networks: Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico
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    In this innovative study, Leo Cabranes-Grant analy…

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    Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, and the Hole of History
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    This bold book investigates how performance can tr…

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    The Scene of Foreplay: Theater, Labor, and Leisure in 1960s New York
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    Aesthetic Citizenship: Immigration and Theater in Twenty-First-Century Paris
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    Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism
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    Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism trace…

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    Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela
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    The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil
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    A certain idea of the avant-garde posits the possi…

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    Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Québec
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    Winner, 2019 John W. Frick Book Award
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    Transgenerational Remembrance: Performance and the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan
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    In Transgenerational Remembrance , Jessica Nakamur…

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    Theaters of Citizenship: Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt
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    Theaters of Citizenship investigates independent E…

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    Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin
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    Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa
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    Senegalese Stagecraft explores the theatrical stag…

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    Dancing on Violent Ground: Utopia as Dispossession in Euro-American Theater Dance
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    The politics of theater dance is commonly theorize…

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    Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India
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    Back Stages: Essays across Art, Performance, and Public Life
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    Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, …

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